From owner-freebsd-arm@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 9 08:20:58 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58E97316 for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:20:58 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ronald-freebsd8@klop.yi.org) Received: from smarthost1.greenhost.nl (smarthost1.greenhost.nl [195.190.28.81]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19AC51F9A for ; Tue, 9 Jul 2013 08:20:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.greenhost.nl ([213.108.104.138]) by smarthost1.greenhost.nl with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UwSv4-00007J-Hh; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:05:08 +0200 Received: from [81.21.138.17] (helo=ronaldradial.versatec.local) by smtp.greenhost.nl with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1UwSv4-0004XS-Qm; Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:05:06 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes To: "John-Mark Gurney" , "Oleksandr Tymoshenko" , "Douglas Beattie" Subject: Re: NFS root on BeagleBone Black References: <0D94186F-F592-44C4-9F76-9E4B4B487468@ieee.org> <20130708054342.GB26412@funkthat.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 10:05:04 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: "Ronald Klop" Message-ID: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Opera Mail/12.16 (Win32) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamav at smarthost1.samage.net X-Spam-Level: - X-Spam-Score: -1.9 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=disabled version=3.3.1 X-Scan-Signature: 5a1627636b35b65657045ef62631cd80 Cc: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the StrongARM Processor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2013 08:20:58 -0000 On Mon, 08 Jul 2013 19:37:21 +0200, Douglas Beattie wrote: > On Jul 7, 2013, at 11:43 PM, John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >> Douglas Beattie wrote this message on Sun, Jul 07, 2013 at 23:06 -0600: >>> >>> options NFS_ROOT #NFS usable as /, requires >>> NFSCL >>> options >>> ROOTDEVNAME=\"nfs:192.168.0.198:/opt/tftpboot/beaglebone\" >> >> Do you have: >> options BOOTP >> >> in your kernel to give the interface an ip address? I don't see >> anything in your dmesg about the kernel trying to get an ip address >> before it tries to nfs mount root. >> >> There isn't any communication from U-Boot to the kernel on what the ip >> address is suppose to be... The kernel needs to rediscover it itself. > > > > I tried enabling 'BOOTP' and related options at first, but reverted to > only 'NFS_ROOT', since I don't have a BOOTP service. Isn't BOOTP about the same protocol as DHCP? Oh no, wait. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrap_Protocol 'Most DHCP servers also function as BOOTP servers.' Maybe you can just hardcode its IP. Ronald.