Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751109AbWCRLCg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:02:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752453AbWCRLCg (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:02:36 -0500 Received: from wg.technophil.ch ([213.189.149.230]:50915 "HELO hydrogenium.schottelius.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751109AbWCRLCf (ORCPT ); Sat, 18 Mar 2006 06:02:35 -0500 Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2006 12:02:32 +0100 From: Nico Schottelius To: LKML , akpm@osdl.org Cc: Nico Schottelius , Arthur Othieno Subject: [PATCH] doc: Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txt Message-ID: <20060318110232.GB4336@schottelius.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nico Schottelius , LKML , akpm@osdl.org, Arthur Othieno MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: echo $message | gpg -e $sender -s | netcat mailhost 25 X-Linux-Info: http://linux.schottelius.org/ X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.15.4 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 4875 Lines: 136 --YD3LsXFS42OYHhNZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello LKML! What am I doing terrible wrong that I do not get any comment on this patch? ----- Forwarded message from Arthur Othieno ----- Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:05:53 -0500 To: akpm@osdl.org Cc: Nico Schottelius , Arthur Othieno Subject: [PATCH] doc: Updated Documentation/nfsroot.txt =46rom: Arthur Othieno =46rom: Nico Schottelius 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. Signed-off-by: Nico Schottelius Signed-off-by: Arthur Othieno --- Documentation/nfsroot.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) bb5fd479f34c5c53f3e3316052656c7795c02f90 diff --git a/Documentation/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/nfsroot.txt index a87d4af..d56dc71 100644 --- a/Documentation/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/nfsroot.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nf =20 Written 1996 by Gero Kuhlmann Updated 1997 by Martin Mares +Updated 2006 by Nico Schottelius =20 =20 =20 @@ -168,7 +169,6 @@ depend on what facilities are available: root. If it got a BOOTP answer the directory name in that answer is used. =20 - 3.2) Using LILO When using LILO you can specify all necessary command line parameters with the 'append=3D' command in the LILO configuration @@ -177,7 +177,11 @@ depend on what facilities are available: LILO and its 'append=3D' command please refer to the LILO documentation. =20 -3.3) Using loadlin +3.3) Using GRUB + When you use GRUB, you simply append the parameters after the kernel + specification: "kernel " (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 @@ depend on what facilities are available: lar to how LILO is doing it. Please refer to the loadlin docu- mentation for further information. =20 -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 @@ depend on what facilities are available: and its mirrors. They are called 'netboot-nfs' and 'etherboot'. Both contain everything you need to boot a diskless Linux client. =20 +3.6) Using pxelinux + Using pxelinux you specify the kernel you built with + "kernel ". 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. + =20 =20 =20 --=20 1.1.5 ----- End forwarded message ----- --=20 Please reply to nico-kernel2 (same domain as sending address). 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