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4. Booting the workstation

4.1 Using a boot rom

As I have not used such a beast myself yet, I can give you only the following tips (courtesy of Christian Leutloff <leutloff@sundancer.tng.oche.de>):

4.2 Using a raw kernel disc

If you have exported the root filesystem with the correct name for the default naming and your NFS server is also the RARP server (which implies that the boxes are on the same subnet.), than you can just boot the kernel by cating it to a disc. (You have to set the root device in the kernel to 0:255.) This assumes, that the root directory on the server is /tftpboot/IP-Address (this value can be changed when compiling the kernel.)

4.3 Using a bootloader & RARP

Give the kernel all needed parameters when booting, and add nfsroot=<server-ip-addr>:</path/to/mount> where server-ip-addr is the IP-address of your NFS-server, and /path/to/mount is the path to the root directory.

Tips:

4.4 Using a bootloader without RARP

In addition to nfsroot give a nfsaddrs=<wst-IP>:<srv-IP>:<gw-IP>:<netm-IP>:<hostname> commandline argument for the kernel. The kernel will setup eth0 with the given parameters:

wst-IP

machine's IP-Address

srv-IP

NFS-server IP-Address

gw-IP

gateway

netm-IP

netmask

hostname

machine name


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