Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-23 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 04:18:43PM +0100, Dietmar Schultz wrote: :I'm happy with Etherboot (http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/), which :you can use to create a ROM-Image loaded via BootROM, bootdisk or :LiLo. The image receives the kernel as NetBootImage using tftp or nfs. :Configure the netbootima

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-23 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 07:26:38AM -0500, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > I'm trying to boot from a LILO based floppy with root=/dev/nfsroot > (the pseodo device 0,255 named in the docs, tried it as both a block > and char device), and the kernel fails on trying to mount the rootfs > with a device fa

Re: Another Question Re: diskless debian

2000-12-22 Thread Xucaen
--- "Jonathan D. Proulx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I enabled kernel level auto config, and all the > NFS stuff I could find > in the kernel build (serveral iterations using > xconfig, menuconfig, > config and finally hand hacking the .config > file) couldn't find the > NFS_ROOT option anywhere,