[Linux-ia64] nfsroot on Linux/ia64

[Linux-ia64] nfsroot on Linux/ia64

[MAGENHEIMER,DAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1)]

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.

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

Re: [Linux-ia64] nfsroot on Linux/ia64

[Robin Holt]

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
> 
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Re: [Linux-ia64] nfsroot on Linux/ia64

[Stephane Eranian]

Dan,

On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:30:54PM -0800, MAGENHEIMER,DAN (HP-FtCollins,ex1) 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.
> 
Yes it does work I have used it in the past and it works
great with elilo. By diskless, I assume you mean that everything
comes from the network including elilo, vmlinuz and initrd.

If so I strongly suggest you take a look at the elilo documentation.
On a RHAS system this is /usr/share/doc/elilo-3.2/netbooting.txt. Go
to section 5/ Netbooting. There are examples of configurations.

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-Stephane