On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, Mark E Mason wrote: > Do you mean something like this? > > setenv LINUX_CMDLINE "root=/dev/nfs rw ip=dhcp nfsroot=10.0.1.184:/home/mason/debian-root-el" Yes, it should work. > What about CONIFG_ROOT_NFS? Some of the HOWTOs on the net mention it, > and it's still in some (most) of the default config files except for the > bcm47xx (but I added it to mine manually as I couldn't find it in the > menuconfig). So it shouldn't matter... Except that I'm paraniod... Is > this a left over 2.4-ism? For your configuration you need at least these: CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_PNP=y CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y CONFIG_NETWORK_FILESYSTEMS=y CONFIG_NFS_FS=y CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y In the absence of a platform maintainer the respective default config files are at the very best only updated so that `make oldconfig' does not ask questions. Maciej