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From: Albert ARIBAUD <albert.u.boot@aribaud.net>
Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2013 16:35:36 +0200
Subject: [U-Boot] can u-boot NFS mount my beaglebone rootfs over USB
 tether?
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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.