On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 10:39:13AM +0200, Martin.Tuerk@alcan.com wrote:
> ./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.
Come now.. you can give a better bug report than that. The palo Makefile
suggests:
root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.10.10.2 ip=bootp
so the problem may be in your server configuration.
> The main reason why I want to boot the box diskless is that the kernel
> has trouble with the scsi interface on the 742, it only runs stable to the
> point it wants to do the first scsi reset, then it crashes, which is
> painful, because I need to attach the disk to my 715 to check the
> filesystem again. A filesystem check with an unclean disk on the 742
> is not possible, because of that scsi reset bug.
That's kind of hard to diagnose and fix without hardware. You might have
to try fixing it yourself.
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