Re: Diskless Notebook

[Christoph Plattner <christoph.plattner@dot.at>]

Hello !

You can only solve the problem by using the `initrd' ram disk !
This ram disk is then mounted as root disk including the PCMCIA
driver, the network setup an the mount of the NFS root. I have
not done it yet, but I am sure, that this is the way, how to do
it. I often wanted to try it, but I hack around on too many
fronts and too little spare time, so this test is delayed.....

With friendly regards
	Christoph


Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am trying to run diskless Linux on a Toshiba notebook.
> I compiled a 2.4.0 kernel with
>         - IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
>         - PCMCIA support
>         - a driver for my PCMCIA network card
>         - Root file system on nfs
> 
> I copied the kernel to a floppy (w/o LILO) and bootet the laptop.
> The network card was recognized and initialized, but too late! The
> kernel had already tried IP autoconfig before and found no devices. So
> it all ended with
> 
>         "Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up"
> 
> Is there any way i can get this to work? I have not tried supplying
> Server IP on the kernel command line; i do want to use bootp-config.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Heinrich Rebehn
>                         "Have disk - will travel"
> University of Bremen
> Physics / Electrical and Electronics Engineering
> - Department of Telecommunications -
> 
> E-mail: mailto:rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de
> Phone : +49/421/218-4664
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