Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 12:47:08 +0200 From: crest <crest@informatik.uni-bremen.de> To: freebsd-arm@freebsd.org Subject: Re: how to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root file system Message-ID: <3B2DAD3B-5405-43EC-959E-5324C5AEA62A@informatik.uni-bremen.de> In-Reply-To: <1311818062256-4640945.post@n5.nabble.com> References: <1311818062256-4640945.post@n5.nabble.com>
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On 28.07.2011, at 03:54, satish kondapalli wrote: > Hi, >=20 > How to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root filesystem.=20 > In case of Linux we will set the bootargs ( In kernel command line = args, we > will give the server ip and path of file system.) >=20 > 1) In Free BSD, make installworld will install all the utils in = DESTDIR, > that DESTDIR we can use as the file system. am i correct? Yes export $DESTDIR via NFSv3 > 2) If my first point is correct then how to configure my kernel = DESTDIR as > a root filesytem. where to give the path of DESTDIR and DESTDIR = machine IP > in the kernel. Your kernel needs to support (options NFS_ROOT). If you can't run = /boot/loader than define the rootfs in the kernel config (options = ROOTDEVNAME=3D\"ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs\").=
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