I am using the recommended packages and the vmlinux kernel is on the IRIX server. I am currently getting the following error: VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem) readonly. Warning: unable to open an initial console. Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init! I don't know why the fs is readonly. I explicitly put rw in the /etc/exports. Is this why the initial console cannot be opened? I read the nfsroot.txt and I have come across other people with the same problem, but no soln. What am I missing? I tried both the ecoff and normal vmlinux, both panic. This is my command line: >bootp():vmlinux init=/bin/bash nfsroot=171.64.72.121:/ld2/linux/debian \ root=/dev/nfs thank you for your assistance, john davis On Fri, 4 May 2001, Bas Benschop wrote: > I also added root=/dev/nfs. Also check the config-2.4.0 to see if nfs root > fs is compiled in to the kernel. I used > kernel-image-2.4.0-test9-ip22-r4k, because 2.4.2 had no nfs root fs > compiled in. > > Bas Benschop > Faculty of Applied Physics > University of Twente > The Netherlands > > On Thu, 3 May 2001, John D. Davis wrote: > > > > > I am trying to install Linux on an R4400 Indy from another R4400 Indy > > running IRIX. I have looked at the list archives at both debian and sgi > > and found messages with the same kernel panic problem. Is there a > > solution? dhcp_bootp and tftp seem to be configured right. i don't get > > any NFS errors in the SYSLOG. I have also tried the instructions on the > > digibel.org site and added the nfs_root info for the server. I am using > > the base.2.2.2 and kernel-image-2.4.0-ip22-r4k.tgz. I had to explicitly > > add /tftpboot directory with a link to the debian linux distribution to > > rememdy the nfs errors from getfh. > > > > Any and all suggestions are greatly appreciated. > > thanks, > > john davis > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mips-request@lists.debian.org > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > > > >
