Re: root-nfs-addrs does not appear in /proc

[NISHIDA Wataru]

Tony Nugent wrote, >Last time I tried to do it like this, it simply didn't work (and I >wasted a LOT of time trying). The ONLY way I could get it to work, >was to compile the nfs-root stuff (arp, bootp etc - like you have >done) into the kernel, along with the necessary ethernet drivers. >The main problem was getting the kernel to do the bootp stuff >*after* loading the drivers etc. And actually specifying network >config at this point is rather a useless waste of time (that's what >dhcpd/bootp is for!) And I couldn't get it to switch / to an >nfsroot filesystem once I had the kernel booted from an initrd. >(Disclaimer: this is all over 12 months ago, not recently). Thank you Tony. I appreciate your suggestions. But, I failed to find /proc/sys/kernel/nfs-root-name and nfs-root-addres in kernel 2.2.16 anyway, so I examined the kernel source trees. Surprisingly, there are no descriptions about nfs-root-* in 2.2.16/kernel/sysctl.c. On the other hand, kernel 2.0.38 included both of parameters in sysctl.c. It seems to me that "NFS-root switching function of initrd" has been thrown away since kernel 2.2. If so, "initrd.txt" is too obsolete and it should be rewritten, I think. Regards, Wataru Nishida - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]