problem mounting nfs

Michael Tautschnig mt at debian.org
Sat Jan 2 23:20:41 CET 2010


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> 
> -----------
> The problem
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> 
> When booting the client, after some time it stops by printing:
> 
>    VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block (2,0)
> 
>    Please append a correct "root=" boot option
>    Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (2,0)
> 
> So, something went wrong while mounting the nfs directory, but i do
> not know, how to handle this error.
> 

The kernel you are using lacks NFS-root support. Which kernel are you using? I
guess you're booting using PXE so most likely this should be a standard Debian
kernel, but that would have NFS-root support!?

Best,
Michael

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