I've used an initramdisk to resolve and mount the root file system, which works fine, Thanks, Simon. -----Original Message----- From: Henrik Nordstrom [SMTP:hno@marasystems.com] Sent: 13 May 2004 17:47 To: Simon Egerton Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Mounting root file system via NFS On Thu, 13 May 2004, Simon Egerton wrote: > However, specifying the NFS path in the following way does not work, > > "LinuxRootServer:/home/remoteclients/client1"; This requires a working resolver, which runs in userspace not kernel.. If you want to do this for the root filesystem then you need to either a) Use a BOOTP/DHCP server which translates the server name into IP in the response. b) Use a initramdisk to mount the root, using the resolver information found in /proc/net/pnp to resolve the server name into an IP address for the kernel to use. Regards Henrik - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
