From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: initrd does not boot in 2.6.3, working in 2.4.25
Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:06:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040305170619.GX655@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200403051831.31271.vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
On Friday 05 March 2004 13:04, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> nfsroot works in 2.6.3 and above here. I'm not sure you need it per se
>> for initrd's; I think the way it's intended to work with that is for
>> the scripts to configure network interfaces, mount the nfsroot, and then
>> pivot_root(). Can you try without initrd?
>> Also, try passing ip= for these things.
On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:31:31PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I run these things everyday.
> nfsroot and ip=.... works, no question about that.
> Just imagine all-modular kernel which needs to load ethernet driver first,
> *then* mount nfs root and pivot_root. Or nfsroot-over-wireless :)
> --
> vda
For this, you should probably script the initrd to do the IP
configuration and mount the nfsroot before pivot_root().
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-03-05 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-03-05 10:38 initrd does not boot in 2.6.3, working in 2.4.25 vda
2004-03-05 11:04 ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-03-05 16:31 ` Denis Vlasenko
2004-03-05 17:06 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-03-05 21:28 ` Denis Vlasenko
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2004-03-05 12:57 ` Pascal Schmidt
2004-03-05 16:27 ` Denis Vlasenko
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