On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 11:38, Daniel Serodio wrote: > Heh, been there. After 2 days trying, I gave up, installed the base > system using 2.2.17-reiserfs (from > http://chao.ucsd.edu/debian/boot-floppies/), and upgraded to 2.4.x > afterwards (add "deb http://people.debian.org/~bunk/debian potato main" > to apt.sources, apt-get dist-upgrade). > I think maybe syslinux, init or something in the boot disks is not > compatible with 2.4.x. If you do find a fix, please email me. Hope that > helped.
Speaking of 2.4 bootdisks, has anyone ever gotten BOOTP or DHCP NFS root to work? I've had no luck, I've tried the rdev trickery on a raw floppy as specified in the nfs-root in the docs, proper parameters for both lilo and syslinux. A 2.2 kernel created for the FAI package works fine. --mike
