From: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
To: "Brian J. Murrell" <brian@mountainviewdata.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip autoconfig with modules, kernel 2.4
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 19:38:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010511193833.B12798@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20010510094953.C28095@brian-laptop.us.mvd> <20010510180039.D9771@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> <20010511111300.A27378@brian-laptop.us.mvd>
In-Reply-To: <20010511111300.A27378@brian-laptop.us.mvd>; from brian@mountainviewdata.com on Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:13:00AM -0700
On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 11:13:00AM -0700, Brian J. Murrell wrote:
> I should have given more information though. My goal is actually to
> NFSRoot the machine being booted. I could not determine a way to get
> the "root path" attribute given by the dhcp/bootp server from
> userspace back to the kernel so that it can
> "change_root()/mount_root()" with it. I seem to recall there was a
> proc interface for doing this at one time (in the 2.2 kernel) but it
> seemed to have went away.
As long as you can get the root server IP and path from the DHCP client,
then you mount it in a directory, and use pivot_root() to change to
that directory.
See the "Changing the root device" of Documentation/initrd.txt for more
information about this.
--
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk) The developer of ARM Linux
http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-05-11 18:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-05-10 16:49 Brian J. Murrell
2001-05-10 17:00 ` Russell King
2001-05-11 18:13 ` Brian J. Murrell
2001-05-11 18:21 ` Peter Svensson
2001-05-11 18:38 ` Russell King [this message]
2001-05-11 18:49 ` Brian J. Murrell
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