From 560eb9aab90fb1a830268432da5c1797f59211af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nico Schottelius Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 03:18:18 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 23449 b: refs/heads/master c: 7e9dd124b90af80824754f68c0b246cfd0fb624b h: refs/heads/master i: 23447: 0e4f01e69a5003a0de4994e4c66e6582e9ddf0fa v: v3 --- [refs] | 2 +- trunk/Documentation/nfsroot.txt | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs] index b7c6b6a09f8a..9fddf9ebf22d 100644 --- a/[refs] +++ b/[refs] @@ -1,2 +1,2 @@ --- -refs/heads/master: d129bceb1d44ed3c23b99164849193703372bab4 +refs/heads/master: 7e9dd124b90af80824754f68c0b246cfd0fb624b diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/nfsroot.txt b/trunk/Documentation/nfsroot.txt index a87d4af216c0..d56dc71d9430 100644 --- a/trunk/Documentation/nfsroot.txt +++ b/trunk/Documentation/nfsroot.txt @@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nfsroot) Written 1996 by Gero Kuhlmann Updated 1997 by Martin Mares +Updated 2006 by Nico Schottelius @@ -168,7 +169,6 @@ depend on what facilities are available: root. If it got a BOOTP answer the directory name in that answer is used. - 3.2) Using LILO When using LILO you can specify all necessary command line parameters with the 'append=' command in the LILO configuration @@ -177,7 +177,11 @@ depend on what facilities are available: LILO and its 'append=' command please refer to the LILO documentation. -3.3) Using loadlin +3.3) Using GRUB + When you use GRUB, you simply append the parameters after the kernel + specification: "kernel " (without the quotes). + +3.4) Using loadlin When you want to boot Linux from a DOS command prompt without having a local hard disk to mount as root, you can use loadlin. I was told that it works, but haven't used it myself yet. In @@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ depend on what facilities are available: lar to how LILO is doing it. Please refer to the loadlin docu- mentation for further information. -3.4) Using a boot ROM +3.5) Using a boot ROM This is probably the most elegant way of booting a diskless client. With a boot ROM the kernel gets loaded using the TFTP protocol. As far as I know, no commercial boot ROMs yet @@ -194,6 +198,13 @@ depend on what facilities are available: and its mirrors. They are called 'netboot-nfs' and 'etherboot'. Both contain everything you need to boot a diskless Linux client. +3.6) Using pxelinux + Using pxelinux you specify the kernel you built with + "kernel ". The nfsroot parameters + are passed to the kernel by adding them to the "append" line. + You may perhaps also want to fine tune the console output, + see Documentation/serial-console.txt for serial console help. +