NFS root thru PPP

NFS root thru PPP

[Mészáros Lajos]

Have anybody experience with NFS root using PPP ?

I have ported 2.4.18 kernel to a factory developed 850 board.
It has two serial port but no ETH (the next version will have one).
How can I use the 2nd serial as NFS root dev?

	Ludwig

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Re: NFS root thru PPP

[Kenneth Johansson]

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 17:22, Mészáros Lajos wrote:
>
> Have anybody experience with NFS root using PPP ?
>
> I have ported 2.4.18 kernel to a factory developed 850 board.
> It has two serial port but no ETH (the next version will have one).
> How can I use the 2nd serial as NFS root dev?

I looked into this a year and a half ago and got to the conclusion that
ppp can't operate without the pppd userspace program. So I did a small
RAM disk that starts ppp and then use chroot to get to the server root.

This works but running everything over a serial line is slow to start.
Once things has been cached it's works quite good but you really want to
avoid rebooting :)




Kenneth Johansson
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