Hi Werner,
> Ookhoi wrote:
> > Now a mount / via nfs is something which really should work.
>
> It does, but in conjunction with PCMCIA, it gets very messy. You're
> exceeding the design limitations of nfsroot. You have to use initrd
> and change_root instead.
Thanx, but the problem is that I boot from a usb floppy drive, and I
can't access it after the kernel booted. All stuff for the usb drive is
in the kernel and the drive is supported according to the information on
the Internet, but I can't read a root image from the disk. It seemes
that people only get the drive to work with modules, and that at
boot-time the driver needs a bit more time.
Initrd is strange anyway, as normaly it asks for a floppy and to press
enter. With the usb floppy drive, it asks for the floppy and to press
enter, but instead of waiting, it just continous, most likely because
the drive gets /dev/sda assigned to it.
> You can find a description of how you can use initrd for an NFS root
> on the pivot_root(8) man page. I've documented using all this with
> PCMCIA a while back in the README of
> ftp://icaftp.epfl.ch/pub/people/almesber/misc/umount-root-6.tar.gz
>
> My example doesn't include bootp, so you'll have to add that one.
>
> If you haven't used initrd yet, I'd suggest you exercise all this
> first on a machine without PCMCIA. And only then deal with the
> added complexity of using PCMCIA.
What is the problem with pcmcia and nfsroot? If I make the nic work,
then nfsroot should work without even knowing the nick is a pcmcia,
shouldn't it? It seemes to me that the only problem is that ipconfig
(bootp or the info as kernel parameter ip) comes before the
configuration of the nic and therefor fails. So if I can make ipconfig
kick in a bit later (after the nic) I have an ip-address, no? Anyway, I
would like to play with this if possible. :-) Can you give me a hint on
how to move ipconfig behind the nic? Or do you have a tip for me on this
problem? Tia!!
Ookhoi
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