Re: is the boot-time parm "root=/dev/nfs" actually necessary?

["karunakar rao" <karunakar.santhu@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Shaz <shazalive@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  playing with an embedded ARM system, and to mount the root
> filesystem via NFS requires the parms:
>
>  "... ip=dhcp nfsroot=<IP addr>:<mount point> ..."
>
> but the doc file Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt mentions the
> additional parm "root=/dev/nfs".  is this parm still required?  i
> certainly don't seem to need it here -- using "nfsroot" seems to be
> sufficient.

It might mean that u have an entry in fstab or else /dev/xxx is needed.

>
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it may helps you

console=ttyRI2 ip=dhcp mem=256M root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=ipaddr:<rootfs path> rw
 

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Shaz

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