problems after upgrading from 3.1 to 3.2

Thomas Lange lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de
Mon Oct 8 22:39:28 CEST 2007


>>>>> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:15:30 +0200, Tobias Herziger <therziger at chipxonio.de> said:

    > Thomas Lange schrieb:
    >> But you may debug your NFS server. Check if the mount requests are 
    >> received by your NFS server. tcpdump and /var/log/daemon.log may help.

    > dammit, you're right. the server does not even try to mount rootfs,
    > but why? just for fun i tried debian-installer and all went fine.
It's the client that tries to do the rootfs mount. If you can't see
the mount request, check if your client tries another server. Maybe
you have more than one network card in your client, and the initrd and
kernel uses another NIC as eth0 than the PXE boot.

-- 
regards Thomas


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