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Re: [Xen-users] Trouble booting domU over NFS

To: "Felix Kuperjans" <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <xen-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-users] Trouble booting domU over NFS
From: "Nick Couchman" <Nick.Couchman@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:52:38 -0600
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>>> On 2010/09/13 at 15:55, Felix Kuperjans <felix@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> When i boot via NFS I specify NFS root in DomU's config file:
> 
> root = "/dev/nfs"
> nfs_root = "/mnt/root"
> nfs_server = "10.0.0.1"
> 
> Probably root=/dev/nfs is important...
> 
> Regards,
> Felix
> 

Thanks for the suggestions, Felix - I do, indeed, have all of these options 
specified in my domU config file.  I believe the root cause may be the lack of 
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS support in my kernel, so I'm compiling a purpose-specific 
kernel with this option enabled and will give that a try.

-Nick



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