On Sat, 04 Nov 2006, Name Withheld wrote: > Can anyone tell me, or point me towards something that will explain what > is the minimum I need to put into an initrd image to satisfy init and > complete the boot process?
so i guess you are using initrd-tools it's support for nfs root is very limited. you want to try initramfs-tools. > I have a kernel that I can load into an old i386, that fails at the point > where it tries to open /dev/console, and fails to execute /sbin/init. > > I'm attempting to set root as /dev/NFS, and have successfully mounted root > on a remote bootp server, but none of the nodes in /dev have been set up, > and apparently the kernel can not execute the init scripts that I've put in > the bootp server directory that my old i386 has mounted as root. > > NetBSD has a document > (http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/) that explains the > server side, and The Linux Documentation Project has a document (which I > just discovered) pointing out that I could copy an existing /dev directory > using -R. (Which I will try next)(onto a root floppy) > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/buildroot.html > also > http://tldp.org/HOWTO/NFS-Root-Client-mini-HOWTO/index.html > > That document also discusses a minimum inittab, and I've tried something > similar without success, obviously because of the missing /dev/console > node. I can't really do a 'mknod' on a running kernel, because it screws up > the existing node?? > > A Linux Journal article by Richard Ferri, > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5465 > (which I also just discovered) explains what I'm trying to do, and I will > have to study further. . > > The obsolete i386 which I am attempting to turn into a Nat/gateway/firewall > (again) is not capable of booting from CDROM. > > Thanks for reading. . . > -- maks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
