On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 01:54:00AM +0200, Zoran Pericic wrote: > This is how I configured NFS root on my pandaboard. There is also > complete boot partition in [1] Maybe it is nice to have this in the wiki? There are some How-Tos already: - https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM > 1) Install grubby, u-boot and dracut-network from my repo [2] Can you explain why the normal Fedora packages are not sufficient? If patches were added, do all of them have a Bug filed upstream? > 2) Install kernel-omap. This kernel have path that allow you to set mac > address for smsc95xx with smsc95xx.macaddr kernel boot argument. Which kernel-omap? I guess the one from dmarlin? Are there restrictions one the kernel version that you know of? The EfikaMX (for Genesi) systems can not upgrade to a 2.6.32+ (required for f14) yet :-/ Maybe there are more similar issues for other boards? > 3) Change KERNEL_ARG in /etc/sysconfig/uboot for dracut network boot [3] > > KERNEL_ARGS="ro vram=32M root=dhcp fixrtc console=ttyO2,115200 > mem=460M@0x80000000 mem=512M@0xA0000000 omapdss.def_disp=dvi > smsc95xx.macaddr=5A:3E:83:2D:BA:41 selinux=0" These are quite specific for a PandaBoard. If you document this in the wiki, please mention that as well. > 4) Add option "root-path=SERVER:PATH" to dhcp server > host pandaboard1 { > hardware ethernet 5a:3e:83:2d:ba:41; > fixed-address 10.21.38.31; > option root-path "10.21.38.4:/nfs/pandaboard1-fc15"; > } There is a nice reference on root-over-NFS in the Storage Guide: - http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/14/html/Storage_Administration_Guide/nfs-diskless-systems.html > 5) Run "flash-kernel --update-bootscript 2.6.38.8-36.06.fc15.armv7hl.omap" I'm not 100% sure how this works. Do you know if it comes with a standard uboot script? Thanks for sharing, Niels > [1] http://zpericic.fedorapeople.org/boot/ > > [2] http://zpericic.fedorapeople.org/RPMS/ > > [3] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Dracut/Options#Network _______________________________________________ arm mailing list arm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/arm
