[Gllug] NFS root booting

Adrian McMenamin adrian at newgolddream.dyndns.info
Sun Dec 30 18:34:11 UTC 2007


On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 18:30 +0000, Nix wrote:
> On 29 Dec 2007, Adrian McMenamin uttered the following:
> 
> >
> > On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 23:36 +0000, Nix wrote:
> >> > video=pvr2fb:640x480-32 at 60"
> >> 
> >> You are missing the nfsroot= parameter, which tells the kernel what the
> >> IP address of the NFS server is, the exported directory on the server to
> >> mount, and so on.
> >> 
> >
> > Not a requirement.
> 
> Oops. Sorry, misread the code (I was reading the code and checking back
> at the docs rather than the other way around).
> 
> It seems that `Never try to post after mulled wine' must be extended to
> `never try to post after other people have had mulled wine, even if you
> didn't have any yourself'.


No problem. I should have thanked you for taking the time to look in any
case :)

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