On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Yaron wrote: > I got to the point where the thinbg will boot from the network (using > pxeboot on my tftp/dhcp server). It boots a kernel I built specifically > for the new machine, with support for it's hardware, and no modules. > > But it won't mount the root filesystem off NFS. > > It says it's getting an "error 101" which I think is "Network is > unreachable". I've had relatively low success rates using the NFS root support in the kernel itself, and much better success rates doing a LTSP-style initrd that loads the network card modules, mounts the NFS root filesystem, and then pivot_roots into it. One big advantage of the LTSP initrd image is that it doesn't require a special kernel, too. -- Nate Carlson <natecars at real-time.com> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com | Fax : (952)943-8500 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list