Re: NFS Root broken in 2.4.18? Anyone successfully booted?

["H. J. Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:28:05PM -0500, TWEDE,ROGER (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> Ralf et al,
> 
> I found that the 2.4.18 system boots fine when booting from standard devices
> (IDE disks etc.).
> 
> Init fails to execute successfully when booting from NFS.  The NFS booting
> success appears to have died with 2.4.18.
> 
> The NFS boot completes fine in 2.4.17 but in 2.4.18 the NFS root is mounted
> and /sbin/init and the ld.so.1 are at least accessed, but the system never
> executes far enough in user space to even print a message to the console.
> 
> I've tried two different network card types just to be sure it wasn't a
> single driver issue.
> 
> Has anyone noticed this or does anyone know what changes may have caused
> this in 2.4.18? 
> I'm curious whether anyone has successfully booted 2.4.18 over NFS.
> 

Works fine with 2.4.20-pre6 in CVS.


H.J.