From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1NKozt-00037V-De for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:37 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKozr-00037I-Rh for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NKozm-00036e-9a for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36941 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NKozm-00036b-4d for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:30 -0500 Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com ([209.85.210.191]:45956) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NKozl-0002eX-W5 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 03:12:30 -0500 Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so2100812yxe.14 for ; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:12:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=J02YDGfCkIVwEtYV+zD6Lal/TKpiolXB6Q6yEuHv22M=; b=Pt2mIT/0CJ/J7g9kr12/LF41VKcKyrguoGLhOOLvMf/wW5aSWWE18dKhiRjvLUySev emzN9FN10lk2uDgMhhWapjeI8nbguYG62fF03bIVlXW7mWM3c1YnVH5csBX6ea0SV3LQ hLlXikCfmsQOulopX2mumDRRmEl5bPH6xBeFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=LEeO+EvbkPlwW0ocU22mLxhpkVi9LkzASXd1RotVt+OxTl91HraGCE0J1ML/H7PQJ7 sqehvNSuR8Cpie8XL2upuiRvSC8qik4+ZOmpR0b8BV2+D8rZBNwPFVIDNbBHYDiZSY5r rd1RusdBmaPoROfE+P1zOgnBAN9PL4jtNqNYk= Received: by 10.150.106.19 with SMTP id e19mr299070ybc.323.1260951148779; Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:12:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.0.75? (cpe-66-69-97-231.satx.res.rr.com [66.69.97.231]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 9sm266657ywe.56.2009.12.16.00.12.27 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 00:12:28 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B28966B.4050900@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:12:27 -0600 From: Bruce Dubbs User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080722 SeaMonkey/1.1.11 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: The development of GNU GRUB References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) Subject: Re: Does grub support "nfsroot" linux kernel command line? X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GNU GRUB List-Id: The development of GNU GRUB List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 08:12:36 -0000 Nancy wrote: > Hi, > Does grub support "nfsroot" linux kernel command line? > grub> kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32 nfsroot=10.2.0.15:/nfsroot/rootfs rw > grub> boot > ....... > kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(104,1) I believe that is a kernel or initrd issue and not a boot issue. Once the kernel is loaded, grub's job is done. You would never see a kernel panic from grub. -- Bruce