Hello,
> I've tried a few times to get the kernel to mount root over NFS, doing
> just the sort of stuff kindly suggested in
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt, but it seems as though the NFS
> root code doesn't see the PLIP network device...
>
> Even if I specify "plip1" (the name of the device that is ouput from the
> kernel's PLIP driver) as the device name in the "nfsaddrs" parameter, it
> says it can't find a valid network device and states that it'll try to
> mount root on /dev/fd0, which it proceeds to do...
The nfsroot code in 2.0.x doesn't support PLIP, although it would
probably need only minor hacking. The rewritten-from-scratch IPconfig
code in 2.1.x/2.2.0-prex has been reported to work with PLIP.
Have a nice fortnight
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