Re: hppa on a 742

[Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>]

On Friday 31 August 2001 10:39, Martin.Tuerk@alcan.com wrote:
> Hi,

Hi Martin,

> thanks that one helps, except it leaves one question:
>
> ./palo/palo -f /dev/null  -b iplboot -k /home/cvs/parisc/linux/vmlinux \
>  -c "0/vmlinux HOME=/ TERM=linux root=/dev/sda3 ip=bootp " \
>         -s lifimage
>
> What would be the entry to make the system boot diskless?
> root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=IP-Adress:/mountpoint
> is what I got from the palo documantation, let alone that gets me a
> screming kernel not finding a root filesystem.

Yep.

> the root=/dev/nfs complains about nfs not being a valid device file.
> any ideas?

Maybe you haven't compiled in NFS v3 client support and 
"Root file system on NFS" (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) ?

Helge