[parisc-linux] C180 netbooting

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Thu, Aug 23, 2001 at 12:58:34PM -0400, nick@snowman.net wrote:
> Hi, I'm trying to get a C180 booting entirely off the network.  I can load
> a lifimage over bootp, however then I'm stuck.  There is a vmlinux
> attached to the lifimage, but I can't figure out how to tell the loader to
> boot that and use an NFSroot.  I have found a few suggestions (vmlinux
> HOME=/ TERM=linux root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=mynfs:/dir) and that dosen't seem
> to work.  Do I need a special lifimage?

Well, I do this all the time, so it does work :-)  All I need to do is
change the NFSROOT in palo's Makefile to my server's IP address.  I'm
still crosscompiling; my string looks like this:
0/vmlinux64 HOME=/ TERM=linux root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=15.1.50.190 ip=bootp

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