On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Ugo Delchini wrote: > Hi, > > thanx for these great packages netboot/etherboot. > > I burned a prom for my 3COM 3c509 ethernet adapter and i can > boot Linux from the network (etherboot 3.2 and netboot 0.7.3). > > Now i want to have a eepro100+ PCI card on the same PC. I compiled > the driver into the kernel and during startup the two cards are > seen (i know it from the console messages). I have eth0 and eth1. > > The problem is that now, i am unable to tell the kernel which interface > to use for the root filesystem over NFS. I tried to modify drivers/net/Space.c > to change the probing order but nothing changes. I tried to append complete > NFS root setup with the -a flag of mknbi-linux, no changes. > > Is there any mean to do that without modifying the sources of mknbi-linux > or something else ? > > Thanx for any help. It seems from the comments in /usr/src/linux/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c that there is no provision for handling multihomed hosts. Perhaps you should download an initrd (mknbi caters for this) and do some initial route setup so that what you want happens.
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