Re: the root filesystem

[Thomas Huber <judas@rz.fh-augsburg.de>]

Hi,

>I've just install bootp,tftp, and NFS and all work fine, but I've problems
>to build a root filesystem for my client ( the trickiest part of the setup I
>guess ! ). I've download a small distribution of i386 linux : Linux-EMbedded
>and downloaded it in /tftpboot/my_client_name but it doesn't work, although
>all the required files are here. So, here is my question : how know files
>required by linux and how configuring them ?


If your kernel allready tries to mount the root-system, but then it locks
up somewhere, I can help:

- Use a diskbased linux from the server to generate a client linux.
  Copying the /dev/ is somewhat tricky, but works.

- In /etc you edit fstab to make a nfs-root your /.

- You try a boot and look, what initfile causes the lockup.
  (Sometimes the fsck-part or the netsetup-part.)
  Remove these parts and it should work .


bye

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