On Jun 13, 2012, at 12:58 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote: > Dear all > While setting up a diskless cluster from this guide > > (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto), > clients end up with this message: > > Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) > – Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) > – Check root =(did the system wait for right device?) > - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev) > ALERT! /dev/nfs does not exist. Dropping to a shell!! > > In that guide /dev/nfs is used twice: 1) in /nfsroot/etc/fstab and 2) > > in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default > > > I don't know why it complain... Can somebody help? To start, search the archives of this mailing list. There have been a spate of bugs in this area over the past year or so that hit only during certain edge conditions. -- Chuck Lever chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com -- 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
