Hi Raseel, Usually this is a bad idea.
You can have the nfsroot put up in the kernel command line. append root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=a.b.c.d:/path/to/nfs/root/on/the/nfs_server/ Look at this page : http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Diskless-root-NFS-other-HOWTO-4.html Best Regards, Mitul Limbani CTO, Enterux Solutions The Enterprise Linux Company (TM) http://www.enterux.com/ Quoting Raseel Bhagat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > =0A > =0AHello Luggers, > =0A > =0ADoes anyone know how to do = a NFS mount WITHOUT using tftp or dhcp > or bootp? > =0A > =0AI have a kern= el compiled on a client machine having NFS support. > I have a Embedded= root filesystem ready on the Nfs server and I have > already exported its co= ntents. > =0A > =0Aportmap, nfsd and mfslock are running on the Nfs serve= r. > =0A > =0ANow, if I mistake not, by passing appropriate arguments to = the > bootloader (i.e.Grub in my case), we can make the kernel from the > clien= t machine boot and mount the remote root filesystem(residing on > the server)= > =0A > =0A > =0AIs this actually possible? Can anyone provide me the l= inks? > =0A > =0ARaseel.=0A > =0A > =0A[1] [ads.=] =0A > > References > > 1. file://localhost/tmp/3D= > -- > http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers > ---------------------------------------------------------------- -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
