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Re: Etherboot 4.2.5 released




> >> Added a paragraph to the documentation about hosting root NFS on
> >> non-Linux systems.
> >
> >Sorry, i cant't find it. Where is it?
> 
> README-4.html (section 4.1).
> 
> The gist of it is if you host the root NFS on a non-Linux system, make
> sure the device major/minor numbers are those of Linux, not the host OS.
> I.e. don't run the nfsrootinit script on the host OS but perhaps unpack
> a cpio archive from a Linux system on the host OS.  Otherwise the boot
> process will break as soon as it tries to open /dev/console or something
> like that.

I was not able to mount a proper /dev from DEC-Alpha (DEC-Unix) and
DEC-Alpha (Redhat-Linux) machines. The minor numbers were reported
correctly, but the major were not.
I used a tar.gz archive for the nfs root for the terminals ...

Ciao,
	Dirk

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