Hi all,<br><br><br> I am trying to compile a Linux Kernel 2.6.22 using a nfsroot but I am getting this message during boot<br><br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">..</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k4-NAPI</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Initializing XFRM netlink socket</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">NET:Registered protocol family 1</span>
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">NET:Registered protocol family 17</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">IP-Config: No network devices available.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
...</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br><br>I have my old compiled kernel version 2.6.11 which is working fine. By observing difference between the dmsgs. I found that my 2.6.22 kernel is not making a DHCP request. before attempting to do VFS.<br><br>the depends for nfsroot IP_PNP, IP_PNP_DHCP and NFS_ROOT are set properly.
<br><br><br>Here are is .config section for Network configuration<br><br><font face="courier new,monospace">#<br># Networking options<br>#<br>CONFIG_PACKET=y<br>CONFIG_PACKET_MMAP=y<br>CONFIG_UNIX=y<br>CONFIG_XFRM=y<br>CONFIG_XFRM_USER=y
<br># CONFIG_XFRM_SUB_POLICY is not set<br># CONFIG_XFRM_MIGRATE is not set<br>CONFIG_NET_KEY=m<br># CONFIG_NET_KEY_MIGRATE is not set<br>CONFIG_INET=y<br>CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y<br>CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y<br>CONFIG_ASK_IP_FIB_HASH=y
<br># CONFIG_IP_FIB_TRIE is not set<br>CONFIG_IP_FIB_HASH=y<br>CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y<br>CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH=y<br># CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH_CACHED is not set<br>CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_VERBOSE=y<br>CONFIG_IP_PNP=y<br>
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y<br># CONFIG_IP_PNP_BOOTP is not set<br># CONFIG_IP_PNP_RARP is not set<br>CONFIG_NET_IPIP=m<br>CONFIG_NET_IPGRE=m<br>CONFIG_NET_IPGRE_BROADCAST=y<br>CONFIG_IP_MROUTE=y<br>CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V1=y<br>CONFIG_IP_PIMSM_V2=y
<br>CONFIG_ARPD=y<br>CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES=y<br>CONFIG_INET_AH=m<br>CONFIG_INET_ESP=m<br>CONFIG_INET_IPCOMP=m<br>CONFIG_INET_XFRM_TUNNEL=m<br>CONFIG_INET_TUNNEL=m<br>CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TRANSPORT=m<br>CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_TUNNEL=m
<br>CONFIG_INET_XFRM_MODE_BEET=y<br>CONFIG_INET_DIAG=m<br>CONFIG_INET_TCP_DIAG=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ADVANCED=y<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_BIC=y<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_CUBIC=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_WESTWOOD=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HTCP=m<br>
CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HSTCP=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_HYBLA=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_VEGAS=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_SCALABLE=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_LP=m<br>CONFIG_TCP_CONG_VENO=m<br># CONFIG_TCP_CONG_YEAH is not set<br># CONFIG_TCP_CONG_ILLINOIS is not set
<br>CONFIG_DEFAULT_BIC=y<br># CONFIG_DEFAULT_CUBIC is not set<br># CONFIG_DEFAULT_HTCP is not set<br># CONFIG_DEFAULT_VEGAS is not set<br># CONFIG_DEFAULT_WESTWOOD is not set<br># CONFIG_DEFAULT_RENO is not set<br>CONFIG_DEFAULT_TCP_CONG="bic"
<br># CONFIG_TCP_MD5SIG is not set<br>CONFIG_IP_VS=m<br># CONFIG_IP_VS_DEBUG is not set<br>CONFIG_IP_VS_TAB_BITS=12<br><br><br><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Is there something missing? <br>Can anyone please help me?
<br><br><br><br>Regards<br>Kapil<br></font></font><br><br><br><br>