Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Jan 1997 11:17:01 +0100 | From | Gerd Knorr <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.14+ bootp? |
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In linux.dev.kernel you write:
>I am having problems getting an nfsroot machine >to boot with kerels above 2.1.14... (386dx40 5mb ram) no mathco.
>2.1.14 works fine >2.1.15 doesn't compile nfsroot.c >2.1.16 doesn't compile the bios32 code >2.1.17 (I am compiling now but I don't expect it to work) >2.1.18 >through >2.1.20 all issue bootp requests (at least on the console it says it is) > but tcpdump -vv -i eth0 on a machine on the same coax network shows > no activity whatsoever from the machine bootp'ing after the kernel > has been tftp'ed
>My hypothesis is that the 2.1.15 'routing' change isn't working well with >the bootp code. Or vica versa. Can anyone get bootp nfsroot to work on >kernels above 2.1.14?
Same here. Currently working around this by using an initrd which does the network setup for NFS-Root.
Gerd
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