Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 11 Dec 2002 23:12:00 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:53, Andreas Schaufler wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello list, > > I am trying to configure a notebook with a PCMCIA NIC to boot over network. > (kernel 2.4.20) > In order to accomplish this I passed over the neccessary configuration > paramters through the boot loader (ip, root, nfsroot) > > The problem is: When the kernel is booting it is trying to configure the > Network interface, before it has been activated.
PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia, then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly trivial
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