Subject: Re: nfs root booting process..
To: andrew culver <prez@codeninja.ca>
From: Ryan Nelson <ryan@riacs.edu>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 12/06/2001 10:14:23
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What happens when you load the kernel?
What error message are you getting?
andrew culver wrote:
> Everything seems to be up and running fine, and since I've never used
> a NFS for a root filesystem before, I'm a little clueless. Surely this
> must be an over asked or previously answered question, but I beg you
> to suffer my ignorance. After DHCP configuration, which goes very
> smooth, my dreamcast is proud to annouce to me this: root on
> 192.168.1.4:/usr/export/spellcast where /usr/export/spellcast (the
> root fs) looks more or less like this: [ttyp0
> prez@devstyle:/usr/export/spellcast]> ls
> altroot dev etc mnt sbin sys usr
> bin dist home root stand tmp varI'm curious: In
> the normal booting process, what is my Dreamcast supposed to be doing
> next? What have I missed? Regards, - Andrew.
> --
> "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Gandhi.
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What happens when you load the kernel?
<p>What error message are you getting?
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<p>andrew culver wrote:
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<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Everything
seems to be up and running fine, and since I've never used a NFS for a
root filesystem before, I'm a little clueless. Surely this must be an over
asked or previously answered question, but I beg you to suffer my ignorance.
After DHCP configuration, which goes very smooth, my dreamcast is proud
to annouce to me this:</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>
root on 192.168.1.4:/usr/export/spellcast</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>where
/usr/export/spellcast (the root fs) looks more or less like this:</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>
[ttyp0 prez@devstyle:/usr/export/spellcast]> ls</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> altroot dev
etc mnt sbin
sys usr</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1> bin
dist home root stand
tmp varI'm curious: In the normal booting process,
what is my Dreamcast supposed to be doing next? What have I missed?</font></font>
<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Regards, - Andrew.</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>--</font></font>
<br><font face="Arial"><font size=-1>"You must be the change you wish to
see in the world." - Gandhi.</font></font></blockquote>
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