Dear "Michael Schmid",
In message 20091019165934.319480@gmx.net you wrote:
I'm trying to get root-filesystem over NFS running. I'm a bit confused about all the new stuff and I don't know where I shall start searching for the problem :-(
I have: Board: Artila M501 board with AT91RM9200 U-Boot: 1.1.2
more than 4.5 years old!
Linux: 2.6
2.6.14 according to your log => 4 years old
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bootcmd=bootm 10040000 101a0000
This setting means you are trying to boot with a ramdisk. If you want to boot with root file system over NFS, you MUST NOT pass a ramdiska ddress, i. e. you must not use two arguments to the "bootm" command.
bootargs=root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.2.40:/opt/arm ip=192.168.2.196:192.168.2.40:192.168.2.254:255.255.255.0:michael-laptop::off console=ttyS0,115200
I don't think you want to assign the host name "michael-laptop" to your target board (but this is no really critical at this moment yet).
bootm=10040000 - 101a0000
This setting is completely bogus. It has no meaning. Delete it.
Linux version 2.6.14-M5 (Alan@ace-yang) (gcc version 3.3.2) #837 Tue Aug 14 14:14:03 CST 2007 CPU: ARM920Tid(wb) [41129200] revision 0 (ARMv4T) Machine: Artila M501 SOM
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RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem).
Here you can see that the kernel mounts the ramdisk image which you provided.
VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(0,255) Please append a correct "root=" boot option Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,255)
...and then it gets confused.
Do you have any hints what the problems might be. I'm pretty sure that the NFS-Server works fine, but I'm not sure 100% (How can I find out if it works? Any Idea?).
Well, just mount the root file system from another host?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk