Still no go.. ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50
even specifying ALL the options to ip= and adding root=/dev/nfs to the boot paramaters. What else can I try? On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:58PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Maybe I got the boot args wrong. I was going by the diskless HOWTO, and I > > had it working at one point in time. > > > > RARP on boot server points to the uncompressed a.out kernel image > > (compiled elf2aout on i386) and the kernels do boot to the point where > > they can't mount root FS on 00.00 > > > > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober > > ok boot net nfsroot=... ip=<this systems ip>:.... > > Read the nfsroot.txt in linux/Documentation from the kernel. That one > extra ip addres is what the kernel needs (the original RARP that the PROM > gets isn't used, maybe it should be, but that is a kernel bug). > > -- > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' >