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Hello dear developers,
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
So I added them and the patch for that is attached to this mail.
Sincerly,
Nico
P.S.: Please reply to nico-kernel2 //at// schottelius.org
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On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 09:45:08AM +0100, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> [This message was sent to the LKML on Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:29:46 +0100
> and nobody replied. Perhaps you did not see it in the flood of mails.]
>
> Hello dear developers,
>
> I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
> which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
>
> This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
> Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
> available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
Looks good.
> So I added them and the patch for that is attached to this mail.
Inline patches preferred.
> Sincerly,
>
> Nico
>
> P.S.: Please reply to nico-kernel2 //at// schottelius.org
Easier if this is your From: address, initially ;-)
> --- nfsroot.txt.orig 2006-02-06 16:05:32.000000000 +0100
> +++ nfsroot.txt 2006-02-06 16:19:37.000000000 +0100
> @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
Patches must be in a format that applies with `diff -p1'. diffstat(1)
output doesn't hurt, either. See Documentation/SubmittingPatches and
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt for details.
[ snip ]
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Arthur Othieno wrote:
> Patches must be in a format that applies with `diff -p1'. diffstat(1)
^^^^
That was patch, of course.
Frederik
On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 04:24:18PM +0100, Frederik Deweerdt wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2006 at 10:11:40AM -0500, Arthur Othieno wrote:
>
> > Patches must be in a format that applies with `diff -p1'. diffstat(1)
> ^^^^
> That was patch, of course.
Right. Silly me.
[I followed the instructions in
http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt and
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and corrected my patch submission.
I hope it's ok this time. I copied the original text so you can
use it for the changelog.]
Hello dear developers,
I today booted the first time my embedded device using Linux 2.6.15.2,
which was booted by pxelinux, which then bootet itself from the nfsroot.
This went pretty fine, but when I was reading through
Documentation/nfsroot.txt I saw that there are some more modern versions
available of loading the kernel and passing parameters.
So I added them and the patch for that is attached to this mail.
Sincerly,
Nico
Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius <[email protected]>
--- linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt.orig 2006-02-06 16:05:32.000000000 +0100
+++ linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt 2006-02-06 16:19:37.000000000 +0100
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
Written 1996 by Gero Kuhlmann <[email protected]>
Updated 1997 by Martin Mares <[email protected]>
+Updated 2006 by Nico Schottelius <[email protected]>
@@ -168,7 +169,6 @@
root. If it got a BOOTP answer the directory name in that answer
is used.
-
3.2) Using LILO
When using LILO you can specify all necessary command line
parameters with the 'append=' command in the LILO configuration
@@ -177,7 +177,11 @@
LILO and its 'append=' command please refer to the LILO
documentation.
-3.3) Using loadlin
+3.3) Using GRUB
+ When you use GRUB, you simply append the parameters after the kernel
+ specification: "kernel <kernel> <parameters>" (without the quotes).
+
+3.4) Using loadlin
When you want to boot Linux from a DOS command prompt without
having a local hard disk to mount as root, you can use loadlin.
I was told that it works, but haven't used it myself yet. In
@@ -185,7 +189,7 @@
lar to how LILO is doing it. Please refer to the loadlin docu-
mentation for further information.
-3.4) Using a boot ROM
+3.5) Using a boot ROM
This is probably the most elegant way of booting a diskless
client. With a boot ROM the kernel gets loaded using the TFTP
protocol. As far as I know, no commercial boot ROMs yet
@@ -194,6 +198,13 @@
and its mirrors. They are called 'netboot-nfs' and 'etherboot'.
Both contain everything you need to boot a diskless Linux client.
+3.6) Using pxelinux
+ Using pxelinux you specify the kernel you built with
+ "kernel <relative-path-below /tftpboot>". The nfsroot parameters
+ are passed to the kernel by adding them to the "append" line.
+ You may perhaps also want to fine tune the console output,
+ see Documentation/serial-console.txt for serial console help.
+
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