Re: Gave up waiting for root device

[Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jun 13, 2012, at 12:58 AM, Mahmood Naderan wrote:

> Dear all
> While setting up  a diskless cluster from this guide 
> 
> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DisklessUbuntuHowto), 
> clients end up with this message:
> 
> Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems:
> - Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline)
> – Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?)
> – Check root =(did the system wait for right device?)
> - Missing modules (cat /proc/modules; ls /dev)
> ALERT! /dev/nfs does not exist. Dropping to a shell!!
> 
> In that guide /dev/nfs is used twice: 1) in /nfsroot/etc/fstab and 2) 
> 
> in /var/lib/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default 
> 
> 
> I don't know why it complain... Can somebody help?

To start, search the archives of this mailing list.  There have been a spate of bugs in this area over the past year or so that hit only during certain edge conditions.

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Chuck Lever
chuck[dot]lever[at]oracle[dot]com




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