Kernel command line: root=/dev/nfs rw nfsroot=192.168.1.245:/opt/eldk/ppc_8xx ip=192.168.1.248:192.168.1.245:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0
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NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP IP: routing cache hash table of 512 buckets, 4Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 4096) IP-Config: Complete: device=eth0, addr=192.168.1.248, mask=255.255.255.0, gw=192.168.1.1, host=192.168.1.248, domain=, nis-domain=(none), bootserver=192.168.1.245, rootserver=192.168.1.245, rootpath= NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.1.245
And it hang not continue.
I would bet that NFS is not running on 192.168.1.248. Your kernel command line is trying to point the newly booted kernel to access its root filesystem through an NFS mount point on 192.168.1.248, specifically, th directory: /opt/eldk/ppc_8xx.
1) make sure NFS is running, on RHL, try, e.g., '/etc/init.d/nfs status' 2) make sure you have a well-formed /etc/exports file try, e.g., '/opt/eldk/ppc_8xx *(rw,no_root_squash,no_all_squash)' 3) make sure the mount point '/opt/eldk/ppc_8xx' exists and contains an image of the ELDK PPC/8xx root filesystem 4) run 'exportfs -ra' after starting NFS the first time, to synchronize info 5) boot your target again
Cheers, T.mike