Re: NFS root woes: No init found

In message [ref] you wrote:

I am having a problem with NFS mounting the root filesystem. It seems that
init
is not being executed. However, the problem may be with rootpath not being
set.
Should that parameter be set from the kernel command nfsroot=?

What are you talking about?

Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/powerpc-rootfs
ip=172.25.59
.11:172.25.59.15::255.255.0.0:vib::off

Your rootpath _is_ set here: you're using "/tftpboot/powerpc-rootfs"
as root directory.

...

Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 172.25.59.15
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 172.25.59.15
VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem).

And the root filesystem was found and mounted.

Mounted devfs on /dev
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212k init
Kernel panic: No init found.  Try passing init= option to kernel.

Are you sure you NEED devfs here? For now I recommend to disable this
option, as it adds just additional complexity. To anlyze what's going
on with your  NFS  root  filesystem,  run  a  network  sniffer  (like
ethereal) and check wich accesses work, and which are failing.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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