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Sun, 2015-03-08


If you get errors trying to nfsmount your root partition during a PXE boot permalink
VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy.
VFS: Cannot open root device "nfs" or unknown-block(2,0): error -6
Please append a correct "root=" boot option; here are the available
partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2,0)
try adding "nfsvers=3" to your kernel command line
LABEL alan
  KERNEL alan/bzImage
  APPEND root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.21.1:/work/netboot/alan/nfsroot,nfsvers=3 \
         ip=dhcp nfsrootdebug vga=0x323 netconsole=@192.168.21.201/,@192.168.21.2/