On Sun, 28 Mar 2021 19:46:32 -0400 Joshua Kinard <ku...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> I've kinda come to this conclusion myself. I could probably host an > extracted, micro-initramfs on my NFS server that would be loaded by the > kernel to jump to $REAL_ROOT. Not *too* much of an issue on the Octane, > because I can store the kernel command line args in a PROM variable so that > all I have to do is type "$foo" at the PROM prompt to load something. But, > SGI did their best to be inconsistent, and IP27 systems cannot permanently > save variables to NVRAM. Once you power cycle, all user-defined PROM vars > are lost. And Linux's NFS Root command args are somewhat complicated from > what I remember. Upshot is I boot the IP27 over serial console, so I can > just save bootp() args in a text file on my desktop and paste it into the > console for those instances. Have you seen CONFIG_CMDLINE? It lets you bake command line args into the kernel image itself. -- James Le Cuirot (chewi) Gentoo Linux Developer
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