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  From: Adam Hawes <adam.hawes@flinders.edu.au>
  To  : Greg  <grog@lemis.com>
  Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2003 14:13:23 +0930

Re: Problems with NFS-mounted root

> Ethereal shows that the kernel doesn't even try to access the NFS
> server: there's no traffic at all after the kernel finishes loading.
> I'm guessing that it has to be either an error in the grub config file
> or in the kernel configuration.  Both are derived from a description
> at http://bogmog.sourceforge.net/document_show.php3?doc_id=36.

Forgive me for stating the obvious (again), but it sounds like your
network drivers aren't loading into the kernel.  Are they compiled into
the kernel or as modules?  I'd hazard a guess that they need to be
compiled into the kernel if the root (and hence modules) path is on a
NFS share.  Can you see any messages relating to the network during
bootup?

Adam

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