Re: [linuxdc-dev] NFS booting

[Karl T. K. <ka...@li...>]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2003 at 04:58:52PM +0100, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> I have finally got my NFS daemon working again - and fixed the other
> configuration problems in my ia32 kernel. I am specifying nfs as the
> root filesystem on the DC but it is just loading the ramdisk - should I
> be passing over and empty initrd for this to work?

I can't remember that being necessary. The kernel will use the nfs
device as root (/dev/nfs) and look for /bin/init on it (or whatever you
init= setting is).

The caveats being you having NFS support in the kernel, and the IPs
configured correctly. Use tcpdump or other diagnostics (nfs log) to see
if you actually have a request from the DC at boot.


Kind regards,

Karl T