On Wednesday 12 April 2006 15:35, Randy Smith wrote: Hi,
If your system configuration is static why not just sleep in the bootloader for a while? U-boot has sleep command. - Jarno > Hello, > > I have a general question regarding having a root file system mounted > via NFS. Our system consists of a linux PC that acts as the NFS server > and two embedded ppc boards running linux that mount their file systems > via NFS. The problem is that the embedded boards boot much faster than > the PC, and when they attempt to mount the root file system, the NFS > server is not up yet. The embedded boards hang and it takes quite a > long time before the watchdog timer reboots them. The next time round, > they come up just fine. > What I would like for them to do is keep trying until the NFS server > appears and then continue to boot. > > We are running DENX's ELDK 2.4.25 kernel on the ppc boards and I know > that for some linux releases, one may add values for timeo and retrans > on the boot command line in the NFSROOT= command. Can anyone tell me if > they are valid for this release of the kernel? Or if there is another > way to accomplish this? > > Thanks, > > -Randy Smith > Software Engineer > ImageMap, Inc. > > _______________________________________________ > Linuxppc-embedded mailing list > Linuxppc-embedded at ozlabs.org > https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-embedded
