On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:59:01PM +0200, Jens Schmalzing wrote: > Hi, > > Troy Benjegerdes writes: > > > Our environment at the lab is a netboot+nfsroot setup... Is there a > > reasonable way to make a debian kernel image nfsroot? > > Well, the straightforward way would be to build the necessary drivers > into the kernel, but as you say correctly, this is a lot of overhead > for little actual benefit. It should be possible to use an initrd for > bringing up an nfsroot, after all it's nothing but pivot_root with > some dressing, but I don't know whether this is taken care of in the > current mkinitrd script.
Probably not, which is why we maybe need to have a discussion about mkinitrd, which i believe is very unrobust, and will probably fail on most non-mainstream arches. What is the eperience on kernel maintainers using it on other arches ? Friendly, Sven Luther
