> 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" I haven't bothered checking the source of the 2.4 Linux kernel, but my suspicion is that you won't be able to start the PCMCIA subsystem before mounting the first file system. So, the work around is probably to load an initial ramdisk that starts up PCMCIA for you. Once PCMCIA is running, you can mount your real root filesystem using NFS, and then discard the initial ramdisk. If you figure out the details, please post a follow up to the list. Markus -- Markus Gutschke Resonate, Inc. 3637 Fillmore Street #106 385 Moffett Park Drive San Francisco, CA 94123-1600 Sunnyvale, CA 94089 +1-415-567-8449 +1-408-548-5528 markus@gutschke.com mgutschk@resonate.com =========================================================================== This Mail was sent to netboot mailing list by: Markus Gutschke <markus@gutschke.com> To get help about this list, send a mail with 'help' as the only string in it's body to majordomo@baghira.han.de. If you have problems with this list, send a mail to netboot-owner@baghira.han.de.
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