Hello,

is there any possibility to get root from a nfs-server at boot time?
This would be pretty, thus i don't have to bother about memory size and write cycles.
Thanks, bye, b52

I think it should be possible.  You could try to mount the remote fs, and the "pivot_root" to it.  I'm not sure if it would work.  Other option would be a "nfs root" support in kernel (I used it with "etherboot" a long time ago).

Yes, I would also use pivot_root method, but could anybody tell me how to get sunrpc.o, lockd.o and nfs.o into my kernel? Because at the moment i have to do a pivot_root to get /dev/mtdblock/4 on /, insmod all the nfs-modules and do a second pivot_root to get my nfs share on /.
Has anybody experience with that?
Thanks, bye, b52

Tried nfs root, didn't work though.

Can mount nfs disk and pivot_root actually succeeds. But then after mount /proc and /dev and /dev/pts, the /sbin/init call fails.

Tried manually execute above steps. Got same result. Busybox executes the init precedure but seemed init didn't call /etc/inittab. So I end up with a pivoted root and same proccesses as before pivot_root.

I don't have usb interface. So can't try USB way.

BTW, my configuration is:
WRT54G v2
Whiterussian rc4

Any comments?

(Last edited by dreamdreams on 6 Dec 2005, 05:42)