From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:23:24 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:23:24 -0500 Received: from mailout09.sul.t-online.com ([194.25.134.84]:39650 "EHLO mailout09.sul.t-online.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id convert rfc822-to-8bit; Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:23:23 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII From: Andreas Schaufler To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ? Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 18:29:46 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.3 Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List References: <200212112253.57325.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> <1039648320.18467.49.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1039648320.18467.49.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Message-Id: <200212121829.46465.andreas.schaufler@gmx.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ... > PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves > building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia, > then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly > trivial Thanks for your reply. I get the basic idea from what you say. But what do you mean by pivot_root()'ing into it ?!? I'll try Andrew Morton's suggestion first, because it sounds easier. If I can't get it running I'll try your suggestion. regards -Andreas