On Thu, Oct 07, 2010 at 08:33:03PM +0800, cheng chen wrote: > I am trying to boot linux on my arm board. I have fedora13 on my PC. > However, I got this error when I try to boot the kernel. > Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up. > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy. > VFS: Cannot open root device "<NULL>" or unknown-block(2,0) > > Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available > partitions: > 1f00 256 mtdblock0 (driver?) > 1f01 2048 mtdblock1 (driver?) > 1f02 257536 mtdblock2 (driver?) > > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on > unknown-block(2,0) > Check your boot up command line, if there are right parameters passed, and then, of course, have a check on your local host to see if nfs could be mounted correctly with localhost. Here is an example of kernel command line I am using, vmlinux 'root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/export/rootdisk panic=5' The most important is that you should have had NFS configured as 'Y' into your kernel. Good luck. /Adam -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
