Re: Unable to specify root options

[Marty Connor <mdc@thinguin.org>]

On 12/6/2001 9:01 AM Heinrich Rebehn rebehn@comm.uni-bremen.de wrote:

I am forwarding your request to the Etherboot-Users mailing list, where 
you are more likely to get help.  Etherboot is now hosted at Sourceforge, 
and has its own mailing lists for users and developers.  I'm CC'ing the 
Netboot list in case anyone else didn't realize Etherboot-Users exists.

I'd recommend you join the Etherboot-Users list, or check the archives 
for a reply to your question, since folks generally reply to the list.

I hope this helps you.  

Marty

>I seem to be unable to specify root mount options with etherboot etherboot 
>5.04
>and mknbi 1.2. I want the kernel to mount root fs with options
>	v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384
>so i call mknbi-linux with
>mknbi-linux --rootdir=/tftpboot/%s,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384 \
>	--ip=dhcp bzImage > diskless.sys
>Looking into diskless.sys shows:
>..rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/%s,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384 ip=dhcp..
>However, when i boot the client, its cmdline reads:
>rw root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/tftpboot/%s,v3,rsize=16384,wsize=16384 ip=dhcp
>nfsroot=/tftpboot/%s,rsize=1024,wsize=1024
>Who appends the second nfsroot=... ? Is this done by etherboot? Can i 
>disable this?
>It used to work w/ older etherboot/mknbi but my new Tyan Tiger board seems 
>only
>to work with newer etherboot.
>Thanks in advance,
>Heinrich
>-- 
>
>Heinrich Rebehn
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