lenny/amd64 nfsroot on etch/i386

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:40:28 +0100, Nikola Kne?evi? <laladelausanne at gmail.com> said:

    > I first installed lenny/amd64 on a virtual machine, and copied the  
    > setup from the main fai-server. Then, I changed dhcpd.conf to  
    > advertise this VM as a fai-server. Further, I created another VM on my  
    > laptop, to be the test-client. When I try to install lenny/amd64 on  
    > this test-client using fai, kernel crashes during boot. Specifically,  
    > it never installs, and during the boot process I get this message:
    > List of all partitions:
    > No filesystem could mount root, tried:
    > Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown  
    > block (0,255)
Do you really boot the kernel and initrd which is used for fai?

If you have two dhcp servers in the same network, this may cause
problems.

block (0,255) is the pseudo device when you supply root=/dev/nfs. It
seems that this kernel does not know of this device.

-- 
regards Thomas