From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Robin Holt Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 21:15:03 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] nfsroot on Linux/ia64 Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Erik Jacobson wrote: > Has anyone tried using nfsroot (cf. "Documentation/nfsroot.txt") > on Linux/ia64 to run "diskless"? I expect that it will work fine > but I need to do some testing where nfsroot may prove > useful and hope to avoid investing a lot of energy if > someone else has tried it and it, for some reason, > doesn't work. I have used it. The one issue that I am running into is the ipconfig.o (CONFIG_IP_PNP option) doesn't work as a loadable module. I am in the process of modifying nfsroot.c, ipconfig.c and mnt_clnt.c to allow ipconfig to be built as a module and verify it works. I am working with 2.4.19 with the ia64 and discontig patches applied. If you have questions, please direct them to me as I rarely read mailing list. Thanks, Robin Holt > > Note that I know that booting diskless has been tried > successfully... I'm interested specifically in an NFS-mounted > root disk. > > Thanks, > Dan Magenheimer > HP Labs Fort Collins > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-IA64 mailing list > Linux-IA64@linuxia64.org > http://lists.linuxia64.org/lists/listinfo/linux-ia64 > --