Re: sparc installation
Still no go..
ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50
even specifying ALL the options to ip= and adding root=/dev/nfs to the
boot paramaters.
What else can I try?
On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Ben Collins wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2000 at 09:33:58PM -0800, ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> >
> > Maybe I got the boot args wrong. I was going by the diskless HOWTO, and I
> > had it working at one point in time.
> >
> > RARP on boot server points to the uncompressed a.out kernel image
> > (compiled elf2aout on i386) and the kernels do boot to the point where
> > they can't mount root FS on 00.00
> >
> > ok boot net nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober
>
> ok boot net nfsroot=... ip=<this systems ip>:....
>
> Read the nfsroot.txt in linux/Documentation from the kernel. That one
> extra ip addres is what the kernel needs (the original RARP that the PROM
> gets isn't used, maybe it should be, but that is a kernel bug).
>
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