Re: NFS root and initrd
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 19:06, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > Searched a bit, and people seem to think this happens when devfs isn't
> > mounted. But /dev is mounted with devfs. Any idea what else it could
> > be? Or is cheating with pivot_root to get NFS root on a non-NFS-root
> > kernel just never going to work?
> >
> > One other thing: /initrd/var won't unmount because it's busy, presumably
> > with dhclient and/or mount stuff. Perhaps this is interfering?
>
> Don't use devfs. Your life will be happier. Any particular reason for
> using devfs?
Never mind, with some searching, got it working for any stock Debian
kernel-image package, with devfs, with the network driver as a module.
There's no need to compile a kernel any more to boot nfs-root, and it
works well with the diskless package.
I'll post details later. Not tested with 2.6.
Thanks for the help,
-Adam P.
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