mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

[Andreas Nilsson]

Done. I also ripped out all the BOOTP* options from the kernel.
>
> However, this still fails:
>
> Trying to mount root from nfs:10.11.12.13:/usr/home/elars/dst []...
> mountroot: waiting for device 10.11.12.13:/usr/home/elars/dst ...
> Mounting from nfs:10.11.12.13:/usr/home/elars/dst failed with error 19.
>
> Loader variables:
>   vfs.root.mountfrom=nfs:10.11.12.13:/usr/home/elars/dst
>
> Manual root filesystem specification:
>   <fstype>:<device> [options]
>       Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
>       and with the specified (optional) option list.
>
>     eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>         zfs:tank
>         cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
>           (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /)
>
>   ?               List valid disk boot devices
>   .               Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
>   <empty line>    Abort manual input
>
> mountroot>
>
> I did a tcpdump and no traffic shows up on the correct interface (em4). I
> guess I need to set yet another loader environment variable to indicate
> which interface I'd like to use. Looking at the source, I only see
> boot.netif.name, but setting that to em4 doesn't help either.
>
> Any further ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Lars
>

Just a shot in the dark, did you actually tell it to do the root mount ro,
or try with the nfs share as rw?

Best regards
Andreas