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| author | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-08-25 09:12:35 +0000 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 1998-08-25 09:12:35 +0000 |
| commit | c7fc24dc4420057f103afe8fc64524ebc25c5d37 (patch) | |
| tree | 3682407a599b8f9f03fc096298134cafba1c9b2f /Documentation/nfsroot.txt | |
| parent | 1d793fade8b063fde3cf275bf1a5c2d381292cd9 (diff) | |
o Merge with Linux 2.1.116.
o New Newport console code.
o New G364 console code.
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/nfsroot.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/nfsroot.txt | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/nfsroot.txt b/Documentation/nfsroot.txt index 79b08fab5..a87d4af21 100644 --- a/Documentation/nfsroot.txt +++ b/Documentation/nfsroot.txt @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nfsroot) -============================================== +=============================================== Written 1996 by Gero Kuhlmann <gero@gkminix.han.de> Updated 1997 by Martin Mares <mj@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf> classful addressing, unless overridden in BOOTP reply. <hostname> Name of the client. If empty, the client IP address is - used in ASCII-notation, or the value received by BOOTP. + used in ASCII notation, or the value received by BOOTP. <device> Name of network device to use. If this is empty, all devices are used for RARP and BOOTP requests, and the @@ -185,12 +185,12 @@ 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 bootrom +3.4) Using a boot ROM This is probably the most elegant way of booting a diskless - client. With a bootrom the kernel gets loaded using the TFTP - protocol. As far as I know no commercial bootroms already + client. With a boot ROM the kernel gets loaded using the TFTP + protocol. As far as I know, no commercial boot ROMs yet support booting Linux over the network, but there are two - free implementations of a bootrom available on sunsite.unc.edu + free implementations of a boot ROM available on sunsite.unc.edu and its mirrors. They are called 'netboot-nfs' and 'etherboot'. Both contain everything you need to boot a diskless Linux client. |