Hello
>
>The new kernels 2.3.4[3456] start in the same order: first the SCSI
>driver is installed,
>but then the message
>Config: No network devices available.
>comes up and after this the network driver 3c95x.c is installed too
>late. As a consequence the kernel hangs with the message
> Root-NFS: No NFS server available, giving up.
>Has anyone else the same problem and perhaps a solution?
>
>Thanks
>
> Hans-Juergen Knobloch
I got the same thing,
there is something wrong how things are started
My Solution
diff -u -r linux-2.3.45/init/main.c linux/init/main.c
--- linux-2.3.45/init/main.c Fri Feb 11 02:07:26 2000
+++ linux/init/main.c Sat Feb 19 19:38:48 2000
@@ -98,6 +98,8 @@
extern void ecard_init(void);
+extern void ip_auto_config(void);
+
#if defined(CONFIG_SYSVIPC)
extern void ipc_init(void);
#endif
@@ -664,6 +666,11 @@
#endif
do_initcalls();
+
+/* test von remote boot ip_auto_conf */
+#ifdef CONFIG_IP_PNP
+ ip_auto_config();
+#endif
/* .. filesystems .. */
filesystem_setup();
diff -u -r linux-2.3.45/net/core/dev.c linux/net/core/dev.c
--- linux-2.3.45/net/core/dev.c Sun Feb 13 19:18:03 2000
+++ linux/net/core/dev.c Sat Feb 19 19:39:44 2000
@@ -2024,7 +2024,10 @@
*/
extern void net_device_init(void);
+
+/* ist in init/main.c testweise
extern void ip_auto_config(void);
+*/
int __init net_dev_init(void)
{
@@ -2137,9 +2140,10 @@
net_device_init();
+/* ist in init/main.c testweise nach do_initcalls
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_PNP
ip_auto_config();
#endif
-
+*/
return 0;
}
With this it is remote booting and running.
Maybe some other thing will not work with this (initrd).
bye, Johannes
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