Messages in this thread | | | From | Denis Vlasenko <> | Subject | Re: initrd does not boot in 2.6.3, working in 2.4.25 | Date | Fri, 5 Mar 2004 18:31:31 +0200 |
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On Friday 05 March 2004 13:04, William Lee Irwin III wrote: > On Fri, Mar 05, 2004 at 12:38:53PM +0200, vda wrote: > > I am using initrd in order to configure ethernet and > > mount NFS root. It works with 2.4.25 kernel, like this: > > linld image=2425 initrd=image.gz vga=4 "cl=root=/dev/ram > > init=/linuxrc.nfs.vda devfs=mount" that is, it unpacks image.gz into > > ramdisk #0, mounts it, > > mounts devfs on /dev and execs /linuxrc.nfs.vda. > > When I tried to boot 2.6.3 with > > linld image=263 initrd=image.gz vga=4 "cl=root=/dev/ram > > init=/linuxrc.nfs.vda devfs=mount" it unpacks image.gz into ramdisk #0, > > mounts it, > > mounts devfs on /dev and ... complains about NFS server. > > Wow. I did not say /dev/nfs, what NFS? > > ... > > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) > > Mounted devfs on /dev > > (here 2.4.25 would say "Freed unused kernel mem..." and exec init) > > Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up > > VFS: Unable to mount root fs via NFS, trying floppy > > VFS: Insert root floppy and press ENTER > > Omitting devfs=mount does not help. > > root=/dev/ram0, root=/dev/rd/0 does not help. > > Config attached. > > nfsroot works in 2.6.3 and above here. I'm not sure you need it per se > for initrd's; I think the way it's intended to work with that is for > the scripts to configure network interfaces, mount the nfsroot, and then > pivot_root(). Can you try without initrd? > > Also, try passing ip= for these things.
I run these things everyday. nfsroot and ip=.... works, no question about that.
Just imagine all-modular kernel which needs to load ethernet driver first, *then* mount nfs root and pivot_root. Or nfsroot-over-wireless :) -- vda
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