Hi! Bored by previous lhype success, I tried to boot a debootstrapped debian over nfsroot, and lo, this almost works! Commandline: # drivers/lhype/lhype_add 256m 0 ./vmlinux --tunnet=192.168.1.20 root=/dev/root nfsroot=/home/ahu/lhype-root ip=192.168.1.21:192.168.1.20:192.168.1.20 This with lhype.patch current as of this message and 2.9.20-rc4. The boot process stops after: Starting periodic command scheduler: crond. Trying to use the console yields: lhype_add: Failed to get DMA buffer from (nil): No such file or directory lhype_add: console: no dma buffer!: No such file or directory /dev/tty does exist on the root: crw-rw-rw- 1 root tty 5, 0 Jan 7 2007 /dev/tty However, TCP/IP was working, so I installed an ssh server so I could log in over the network, but no dice: Starting OpenBSD Secure Shell server: sshdPRNG is not seeded Installing telnet, and removing /etc/securetty allowed me to login as root, but this doesn't always work. When I try to, lhype prints out the following, if it works or not: lhype_add: Failed to get DMA buffer from 0xb7fff008: No such file or directory lhype_add: network: no dma buffer!: No such file or directory lhype_add: Failed to get DMA buffer from 0xb7fff008: No such file or directory lhype_add: network: no dma buffer!: No such file or directory (8 more of these 2) lhype_add: Pending dma 0x7906c0, addr 0xb7fff000 When it does work, things sort of work, but it looks like timing is seriously off: intel:~# uptime 01:52:22 up -24855 days, -3:-14, 1 user, load average: nan, nan, 0.03 The clock appears to run around 5 times too slow. But things are looking pretty nice! Booting from nfsroot beats a fixed image any day for me. Keep up the good work! -- http://www.PowerDNS.com Open source, database driven DNS Software http://netherlabs.nl Open and Closed source services
