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Subject: [ts-7000] changing from NFS root file system
From: Don Tucker <>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:14:00 -0600
It seems like most of the newer kernels from TS are configured to expect 
an NFS root file system.  That is fine for development, but not for 
deploying remote systems that may lack network connectivity.  Is there a 
simple procedure for reconfiguring these kernels to look for the root 
file system elsewhere, like on an SD card?  I attempted to run bootload 
using a 2.6 kernel image on a TS7260 with a 2.4 kernel, but it hangs 
with the familiar

Looking up port of RPC 100003/2 on 192.168.0.11
portmap: server 192.168.0.11 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get nfsd port number from server, using default
Looking up port of RPC 100005/1 on 192.168.0.11
portmap: server 192.168.0.11 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Unable to get mountd port number from server, using default
mount: server 192.168.0.11 not responding, timed out
Root-NFS: Server returned error -5 while mounting /u/x
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)

error, so I tried instead to do "booload -c "console=ttyAM0,115200 
root=/dev/mtdblock1" zImage-2.6.21-ts" but this eventually hangs as well

yaffs: dev is 32505857 name is "mtdblock1"
yaffs: passed flags ""
yaffs: Attempting MTD mount on 31.1, "mtdblock1"
yaffs: auto selecting yaffs2
block 1 is bad
block 105 is bad
block 550 is bad
block 986 is bad
VFS: Mounted root (yaffs filesystem).
Freeing init memory: 112K
Warning: unable to open an initial console.

I tried to set root to a root file system on a 2.6 SD card, but 
apparently the drivers aren't loaded yet or something because that 
doesn't work either.  Any help is appreciated.

Don



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