On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Maybe I got the boot args wrong. I was going by the diskless HOWTO, and I > had it working at one point in time. > > RARP on boot server points to the uncompressed a.out kernel image > (compiled elf2aout on i386) and the kernels do boot to the point where > they can't mount root FS on 00.00 > > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober
ok boot net nfsroot=... ip=<this systems ip>:.... Read the nfsroot.txt in linux/Documentation from the kernel. That one extra ip addres is what the kernel needs (the original RARP that the PROM gets isn't used, maybe it should be, but that is a kernel bug). -- -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---'
