Marty Connor wrote:
>
> Someone asked if it was possible to use a kernel with "loadable module
> support" turned on with Etherboot. I told them that I had never built
> one that way, but then I got to wondering. It seems like it might work.
It does. I am using loadable modules with etherboot for quite some
months now.
As with every modularized kernel, you have to compile in everything that
is needed to mount the root fs. In the case of net booting this would be
- NIC support
- nfs client support (w/ root over nfs)
- bootp support
- (fill in the items i forgot right now)
The rest can be loaded from /lib/modules/...
>
> If I compiled in all the necessary modules required for the booting
> process, and provided a /lib/modules directory for later dynamic loading
> of modules, would this work? I can perform the experiment, but I am
> wondering if there is some deeper technical reason, like mknbi-linux
> can't deal with it, or root-over-nfs is incompatible with loadable module
> support, or something like that.
>
> Can anyone provide some illumination?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Marty
>
Heinrich Rebehn
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