Re: diskless kernel config

I tried something similar, because I wanted to see if I could mount an NFS partition from my Soekris, running OpenBSD, but I couldn't get it to work. I also couldn't get NFS support to compile properly, so I left it snip I've had no problem getting a 4.0-current (upgraded from 3.8-current,

Re: diskless kernel config

swap on nfs You're right. The motivation for dropping the DISKLESS kernel config, according to a CVS log message (if I remember it well), was indeed a line like now replaced by a single line in GENERIC. Still, mounting / on NFS doesn't seem to be considered the standard procedure it is with e.g

Re: diskless kernel config

I tried that too a while ago, without success. If I remember it well, support for diskless booting was dropped for i386 at some point, though the config still contains references to it here and there. But someone kick me if I'm wrong.. Bill On Sun, 2006-12-10 at 22:09 -0600, Jacob Yocom-Piatt

Re: diskless kernel config

Before I really get kicked: I don't think those refences are in the config, but there certainly are references to i386 diskless booting in some older online docs, like this one: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2004/04/29/Big_Scary_Daemons.html I tried something similar, because I wanted to see