Re: miboot+2.6.12+nfsroot = success

2005-10-21 Thread Hans Ekbrand
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 04:14:40AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > On Oct 18 2005, Brad Boyer wrote: > > You might want to check the boot messages for anything about l2 and/or > > l3 cache configuration to see if something looks different. There used > > to be a way to force these things, but I'm not

Re: miboot+2.6.12+nfsroot = success

2005-10-19 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 18 2005, Brad Boyer wrote: > You might want to check the boot messages for anything about l2 and/or > l3 cache configuration to see if something looks different. There used > to be a way to force these things, but I'm not sure if that still > exists in a modern kernel. Yes, there is, at lea

Re: miboot+2.6.12+nfsroot = success

2005-10-18 Thread Brad Boyer
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 12:07:43PM +0200, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > The intended aim is to use the kernel for "diskless" clients, that > will serve as X terminals, but as I stated in an earlier post, miboot > seems to put the system in a very slow mode. When quik boots the same > kernel, it runs at nor

miboot+2.6.12+nfsroot = success

2005-10-18 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Attached is a .config that works with linux-source-2.6.12 and gives a kernel that will use DHCP and mount / over NFS. The kernel needs the following arguments: "root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp" The following NIC drivers are compiled in: mace, bmac, de2104x, 8139too If you want to test a miboot floppy wi