Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 2 Dec 2006 22:56:38 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Mounting NFS root FS |
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>> > I have been trying to make FC5's kernel do a boot with an NFS root file >> > system. I see >> > the support is in the kernel(?). I have tried this: >> > >> >> root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.1.1.12:/tftpboot/NFS/Root_FS >> >> This feature is almost deprecated. One is supposed to use initramfs, >> /sbin/ip or some DHCP client, and a mount program nowadays. > >But I think that there are plenty of light terminals still booting like >this which will not be able to upgrade anymore then. Even right here, >my web server (parisc) boot from the network that way. At least an >initramfs would need to be able to cope with the same syntax,
No problem:
<<</init<<< #!/bin/bash
for o in `cat /proc/cmdline`; do case "$o" in nfsroot=*) arg="${o##nfsroot=}"; ;; esac; done;
### further parse $arg >>>
simplified example of how this can be accomplished. This is why initrds/initramfs are so much more powerful than in-kernel software.
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