Re: nfs root mount problem
How did you make a boot floppy that initiates the process? I am just
starting to try to make diskless systems (not to make thin clients, but to
centralize software installation on a computational cluster) and am stuck.
The etherboot tutorial says to
cat floppyload.bin 3c905.lzrom > /dev/fd0
but the etherboot distribution doesn't contain any "floppyload.bin" (yes,
I did make it) and the ROM images from http://www.rom-o-matic.net end in
.lzdsk not .lzrom, which I'm not sure is the same. Is there a more
up-to-date tutorial which does etherboot with boot floopies?
On a related note, the 2.2.x kernels must be built with an "allow root to
mount over nfs" option to get this to work, but this option appears to be
gone from the 2.4.x kernels. Is it unnecessary, or just hiding?
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