Re: [Gumstix-users] root over NFS?

[Alexandre P. N. <al...@om...>]

Dave Hylands escreveu:

>Hi Tom,
>
>On 12/27/05, Tom Hansen <to...@uw...> wrote:
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>>Can the Gumstix be booted so as to have the root filesystem be mounted
>>over NFS?
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>>
>
>I haven't done this before myself, but I think to do that you need to
>ensure that NFS and all of the modules that it requires are all
>compiled into the kernel statically, rather than being a loadable
>module.
>
>Craig probably has more insight...
>
>  
>

Yes, you need to ensure that NFS client is statically linked, plus you
need to say yes to 'Kernel level autoconfiguration', under networking ->
networking options -> tcp/ip networking (which will also allow you to
set 'root filesystem on nfs' back on the filesystems), and finnaly you
need to supply a root=/dev/nfs parameter.

Since it has been a while since I last tried this (on a x86 box, by that
time), reading Documentation/nfsroot.txt may provide you with more
up-to-date information. Good luck!

Alexandre