kernel config & nfs (maybe!!)

[Robin Gilks]

Never mind!!

Turned out to be the /dev directory in the host copy of the root fs
didn't have all the special files in it that it should have had so I was
unable to execute the init task once the root nfs mount was done.

Robin Gilks wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> I might be missing something here with nfsroot, kernel config & the
> kernel command line but...
>
> When one does a "make oldconfig", is there a way to stop it asserting
> the lockd config if nfs is enabled? Its driving me nuts trying to do an
> automated build of a kernel that doesn't require a local rpc server to
> do the locking and since I want to boot with a nfsroot filesystem, I
> can't see how to get the -o nolock across the kernel command line.
>


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Robin Gilks
Senior Design Engineer          Phone: (+64)(3) 357 1569
Tait Electronics                Fax  :  (+64)(3) 359 4632
PO Box 1645 Christchurch        Email : robin.gilks at tait.co.nz
New Zealand


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