Lukas Razik wrote: > So, once again... > > What kind of switch is this client connected to, and how is that switch > configured? I can't answer this question because I have no physical access to the hardware. Hence I think it's logical to stop here until the nodes are connected directly (without any hardware between them). I'll write here as soon as I know if it works... For the rest I thank all contributors for the fast help! I think the implication here is that you're plugged in to a port that's running spanning tree (stp) and is not set to portfast. Such a port can take up to a minute to start forwarding packets. If so, you should fix that, but it would also be nice if nfsroot could be made to work in this setup. By the way, if you want to send me that machine with its 64 processors and 32GB of memory, I'd be glad to investigate. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-nfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html