Re: How to make a kernel starting dhcp before it mount root?

[Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 9 May 2007, Magicloud wrote:

> Dear all,
>     I want to make a diskless debian using nfsroot. While I followed the nfsboot package and some articles on the internet, and I got a kernel that panic on mounting root, it seems that the ethernet card is up but has no dhcp ip.
>     So how to resolve this? And does this has something about the dhcp server?
>
> Thanks.

Try to add ip=dhcp as a parameter to your kernel boot line.

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