Date: Fri, 5 Mar 2004 09:06:19 -0800
From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Denis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk
Subject: Re: initrd does not boot in 2.6.3, working in 2.4.25
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On Friday 05 March 2004 13:04, William Lee Irwin III wrote:
>> nfsroot works in 2.6.3 and above here. I'm not sure you need it per se
>> for initrd's; I think the way it's intended to work with that is for
>> the scripts to configure network interfaces, mount the nfsroot, and then
>> pivot_root(). Can you try without initrd?
>> Also, try passing ip= for these things.

On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 06:31:31PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> I run these things everyday.
> nfsroot and ip=.... works, no question about that.
> Just imagine all-modular kernel which needs to load ethernet driver first,
> *then* mount nfs root and pivot_root. Or nfsroot-over-wireless :)
> --
> vda

For this, you should probably script the initrd to do the IP
configuration and mount the nfsroot before pivot_root().


-- wli
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