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To: Theewara Vorakosit <g4465018@pirun.ku.ac.th>
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Subject: Re: NFS root on 2.4.18-14
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Theewara Vorakosit wrote:

>Dear All,
>    I use Red Hat 8.0 and kernel 2.4.18-14, which come from redhat
>distribution. I want create a NFS-root kernel to build a diskless linux
>using NFS root. I select "IP kernel level configuration-> BOOTP, DHCP",
>NFS root support. I boot client using my kernel, it does not requrest for
>an IP address. It try to mount NFS root immediately. Do I forget
>something?
>Thanks,
>Theewara
>
>  
>
You need to give the kernel instructions to use dhcp.   I've always 
found this works:

ip=::::::dhcp nfsroot=192.168.1.5:/vol0/nfs/root/10.01


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