Hi Drew, Would you care to share the diskette? PeterB On Tuesday 19 November 2002 10:05 am, Drew J. Como wrote:
All,
I looked line by line through my kernel config file and found a module that I have inadvertantly left out, which in turn fixed the issue.
Thanks :-)
============================================ Drew J. Como Phone: 631-434-6600 Systems Administrator Fax: 631-434-7800 dcomo@bascom.com Web: www.bascom.com Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. -------------------------------------------- "When quality is the goal, winning is guaranteed."
-----Original Message----- From: Drew J. Como [mailto:dcomo@bascom.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 10:28 AM To: 'suse-linux-e@suse.com' Subject: NFS Boot question
All,
I am trying to build an NFS boot disk that will essentially boot the system via floppy using a 2.4.20 kernel (It seems to work great with my SuSE 7.2 boxes), grab a DHCP address from my DHCP server and then pull a custom SuSE distribution from my NFS Server.
I think I may be missing something in my kernel, but I've looked high and low and cannot seem to find it. The error I am getting is:
VFS= Cannot open root device " " or 03:03. Please append a correct "root=" to the boot option.
So I did, I added a root=/dev/nfs. That failed with: VFS= Cannot open root device "dev" or 00:ff. Please append a correct "root=" to the boot option.
What am I doing wrong, or what am I missing.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks :-)
============================================ Drew J. Como Phone: 631-434-6600 Systems Administrator Fax: 631-434-7800 dcomo@bascom.com Web: www.bascom.com Bascom Global Internet Services, Inc. -------------------------------------------- "When quality is the goal, winning is guaranteed."
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