[parisc-linux] C180 netbooting
nick@snowman.net
nick@snowman.net
Thu, 23 Aug 2001 14:42:49 -0400 (EDT)
Could you email or point me to the lifimage you use?
Thanks
Nick
On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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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