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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] can u-boot NFS mount my beaglebone rootfs over USB tether?
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:35:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130721163536.6857c84d@lilith> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.02.1307210404440.12999@oneiric>

Hi Robert,

On Sun, 21 Jul 2013 04:07:17 -0700 (PDT), "Robert P. J. Day"
<rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:

> 
>   i have a current production version of the beaglebone black, and i'd
> dearly love to NFS mount the root filesystem over the USB tether
> (which typically assigns net addresses of 192.68.7.[12] to the
> host/board).
> 
>   does u-boot support that? i just found this elinux article:
> 
> http://elinux.org/Mount_BeagleBoard_Root_Filesystem_over_NFS_via_USB
> 
> and am about to start poring over it, but if someone already knows if
> it can be done (or not), that would be great. thanks.

If the kernel (and possibly initrd, for modules) is available locally,
then the whole NFS and USB tether rootfs mounting is a Linux thing, not
a U-boot one, isn't it?

> rday

Amicalement,
-- 
Albert.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-21 14:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-21 11:07 [U-Boot] can u-boot NFS mount my beaglebone rootfs over USB tether? Robert P. J. Day
2013-07-21 14:35 ` Albert ARIBAUD [this message]
2013-07-21 15:10   ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-07-21 17:00     ` Albert ARIBAUD
2013-07-21 17:43       ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-07-21 20:43       ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-07-21 21:55         ` Tom Rini
2013-07-21 22:34           ` Robert P. J. Day
2013-07-21 23:25             ` Tom Rini

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