Re: NFSroot & Power4
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Troy Benjegerdes writes:
>
> > Our environment at the lab is a netboot+nfsroot setup... Is there a
> > reasonable way to make a debian kernel image nfsroot?
>
> Well, the straightforward way would be to build the necessary drivers
> into the kernel, but as you say correctly, this is a lot of overhead
> for little actual benefit. It should be possible to use an initrd for
> bringing up an nfsroot, after all it's nothing but pivot_root with
> some dressing, but I don't know whether this is taken care of in the
> current mkinitrd script.
Probably not, which is why we maybe need to have a discussion about
mkinitrd, which i believe is very unrobust, and will probably fail on
most non-mainstream arches. What is the eperience on kernel maintainers
using it on other arches ?
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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