Re: Root-Over NFS Diskless booting

[dman]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:24:39PM +0200, Robert Siemer wrote:
| From: Michael Taylor <address@hidden>
| 
| > It will start booting the 2.4.9 kernel, but when it comes time to mount
| > the / filesystem i get this error.
| > 
| > RPC Call returned error 101
| > Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number, using default
| > NFS Server returned error -101 while mounting /

I have this problem too, and thus have not yet gotten my diskless
station to boot.

| I don't think this is related to GRUB.

Right, it is after grub has already successfully boot strapped the
kernel.

| > There is a little more output than that, but it is not relevant. My
| > NFS server shows nothing in the logs anywhere of the attempt to
| > mount a share off of it.
| 
| First, there are two errors. [-:  The kernel can't reach the
| portmapper (to get the port of nfsd) and even on the default port it
| had no luck.
| 
| Is the portmapper running? What are /etc/hosts.* saying? Maybe
| portmapper not allowed to answer. If everything looks okay, double
| check with a NETWORK MONITOR like tcpdump or ethereal. What is the
| netbook client requesting and what is the answer??

My question is what should the setup be?  I have the various howtos (3
of them from linuxdoc.org, have also read some other diskless
workstation docs) but can't figure out what the problem is.  I even
completely opened up iptables, but still get the error above.  I think
I've also seen error code 111 sometimes.

-D