From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA79940 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:13:06 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id NAA10396 for linux-list; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:12:02 -0800 (PST) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from deliverator.sgi.com (deliverator.sgi.com [150.166.91.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id NAA70286 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:11:59 -0800 (PST) mail_from (deliverator.sgi.com!rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from rachael.franken.de (rachael.franken.de [193.175.24.38]) by deliverator.sgi.com (980309.SGI.8.8.8-aspam-6.2/980310.SGI-aspam) via ESMTP id NAA14043 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:11:40 -0800 (PST) mail_from (rachael.franken.de!hub-fue!alpha.franken.de!tsbogend) Received: from hub-fue by rachael.franken.de via rmail with uucp id for cthulhu.engr.sgi.com!linux; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 22:10:43 +0100 (MET) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #4 built DST-Sep-8) Received: by hub-fue.franken.de (Smail3.1.29.1 #35) id m10N16h-002OvIC; Tue, 16 Mar 99 22:10 MET Received: (from tsbogend@localhost) by alpha.franken.de (8.8.7/8.8.5) id VAA02623; Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:52:40 +0100 Message-ID: <19990316215239.C2594@alpha.franken.de> Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 21:52:39 +0100 From: Thomas Bogendoerfer To: eedthwo@eede.ericsson.se Cc: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: initrd is working and new test image References: <19990313131944.A809@alpha.franken.de> <199903161159.MAA12251@sun168.eu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2 In-Reply-To: <199903161159.MAA12251@sun168.eu>; from Tom Woelfel on Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:59:52PM +0100 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Tue, Mar 16, 1999 at 12:59:52PM +0100, Tom Woelfel wrote: > Yesss, this works. After netbooting I find myself in the shell. The > included prog's are working. that's great. Now I hope this will also work for the R4400 machines. > I was furthermore able to create a directory (/mnt) and > (straightforward) I tried to mount the root-dir from the server. This > works too, but whith some error-messages (RPC sendmsg returned error > code 128). that's normal for a 2.2 kernel without running portmap. One workaround is to use mount -o nolock, but I'm not sure, if this option is supported by the mount on the initrd. Thomas. -- This device has completely bogus header. Compaq scores again :-| It's a host bridge, but it should be called ghost bridge instead ;^) [Martin `MJ' Mares on linux-kernel]