On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot > (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block > and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs > with a device failure.
I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. Configure the netbootimage to use the values from boot-rom. > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere, and I'm loath to just add it to the .config, > not knowing if it's supported in 2.2.17 If you enable 'IP: kernel-level configuration support' and its options *and* NFS filesystem support (not as a module!) 'Root file system on NFS (NEW)' will appear under NFS support. Shurely, your network interface must not be a module. -- Bye, Dietmar
