Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Tue, 13 Jan 1998 20:21:58 +0100 | | From | Martin Mares <> | | Subject | Re: 2.1.78-1 nfs-root problems and patch |
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Hi,
> I tried 2.1.79 pre 1 and it still has problems with nfs-root. > > I crashes when trying to mount the root-filesystem over NFS. > It gives and oops about NULL pointer dereferencing in function > do_mount_root() , file fs/super.c , line xxxxxx > > I posted a fix for it before to linux-kernel ( subject is : > "Made nfs-root work with 2.1.78 !" ) > > and here it is again at the end of mail. > > But there is a new problem . After mounting root , it cannot find > init !!! > It suggests using the init= command line option , but that doesnt help either. > > init is off course present in /sbin and work well under 2.0.33
I use NFSroot on a couple of local machines and it works very well without your patch. Maybe your setup is different -- can you send me your .config?
Have a nice fortnight -- Martin `MJ' Mares <mj@gts.cz> http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~mj/ Faculty of Math and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Rep., Earth "My computer isn't that nervous, it's just a bit ANSI."
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