Subject: Re: nfs mounting problem

From: Andre Haupt <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:59:55 +0100

Manjunath AM wrote:
> Hi,
Hi,
>
> Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.178.110
> portmap: server 192.168.178.110 not responding, timed out
> Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number >from server, using default
> Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.178.110
> portmap: server 192.168.178.110 not responding, timed out
> Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default
> mount: server 192.168.178.110 not responding, timed out
> Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting 
> /opt/montavista/pro/devkit/ppc/82xx/target
> VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
> VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0)
> Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 
> unknown-block(2,0)
>  <0>Rebooting in 180 seconds..

is portmap actually running?
try ps -e | grep portmap

if it is

netstat -an | grep ":111 "

should report something like this.

tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN
udp 0 0 0.0.0.0:111 0.0.0.0:*

Best regards,

Andre