Re: 2.4.17-rc1 wont do nfs root on Javastation

From: Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler (nicoya@apia.dhs.org)
Date: Tue Dec 18 2001 - 14:32:00 EST

At 1:06 PM -0600 12/18/01, Ian Chilton wrote:
[...]
>Now when it boots, it says "Kernel command line: root=nfs" but still,
>the kernel does not try and do the IP-Config/bootp stuff so it fails
>saying it can't find the NFS server which is obvious as it doesn't have
>an ip etc...
[...]

IP Autoconfig won't be enabled unless you pass ip=auto in the commandline,
or twiddle with the source to make it default to on.

I really think it should be a compile-time option to have it default to on,
but I never figured out who maintains it.

Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :) 

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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada           --           http://nicoya.feline.pp.se/

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