Re: About netboot

[Chia Yew Lee <chiayewl@iscs.nus.sg>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 1997 at 05:19:04PM +0900, Jiang Xiong wrote:
> Everything is OK, booting from bootrom, contacting bootp server, readin=
g
> bootimage, and booting the kernel, except that it halts after echoing
> "VFS: Mounted root (nfs filesystem)".
> I think it's because of some error settings of my root dir for that
> diskless station on my Linux bootp server.

For linux, you would need the /sbin/init, /bin/sh (if sh is a link, you n=
eed
the file which sh is linked to). You need /dev and /lib.

>From what you have written, the kernel has ended it's tasks and it should
have called 'init'. I belive you did not include /lib. 'init' needs some
of the library files to run.

Happy trying. :)

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