In message 20040127140657.5468.qmail@web10604.mail.yahoo.com you wrote:

I have sucessfully ported U-boot on MPC8280 board. I am using FCC2 for ethernet. I am able to boot Linux correctly. But sometimes I face some strange problems such as the board suddenly stops responding to commands saying:

======================================= nfs: server not responding, still trying =======================================

Sometimes, the board continues after printing,

nfs: server OK

but sometimes the board just hangs. Earlier I have

What did you see when tracing the network traffic? You did trace the traffic, didn't you?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk