Re: Status of ROOT_NFS feature?

Ruben Schattevoy (schattev@imb-jena.de)
Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:31:46 +0100

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Matthew Kirkwood wrote:
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Ruben Schattevoy wrote:
>
> > what is the status of the ROOT_NFS feature? Apparently the recent 2.1.x
> > and 2.2.0.preX don't have this feature in the configuration file
> > anymore. Will this nice feature which is neccessary to setup diskless
> > X-Terminals not be supported by the 2.2.x series?
>
> Works fine. You have to enable a few other (non-obvious) things
> like "Plug and Play" support and "Kernel IP autoconfiguration".
>
> Then it works just fine.
>

Hi Matthew,

I do have enabled "PnP support" and "Kernel auto configuration".
Nevertheless I receive an error message on my diskless client.

> VFS: cannot open root device 00:00
> Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00

Could you send me a copy of your ".config" file, so
that I can check the difference? Which kernel version
are you using?

Thanks,

Ruben

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