Subject: Re: Which distribution for root file system?
To: None <ayerkes@gmvnetwork.com>
From: Marcus Comstedt <marcus@idonex.se>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 02/08/2001 15:25:51
>>>>> "art" == art yerkes <ayerkes@gmvnetwork.com> writes:

  art> Hi all

  art> I had good luck getting the DC to boot up with the precompiled kernel,
  art> and got my /etc/bootparams set.  The DC will load the kernel (ipload)
  art> and boot, and even do nfs mount on the root fs, but then it just hangs
  art> in /sbin/init (shortly after consuming this file from nfs).  I'm new
  art> to BSD (but a linux hack most of the time) and curious what I'm doing
  art> wrong.  For the record, here's a lot of possibly irrelevant info:


If you have 100Mbps ethernet to the file server, you need to change
the NFS_RSIZE define in sys/src/nfs/nfs.h to be 16384 instead of
32768, or the receive buffer will overflow when reading from NFS.
Which is a tad hard to do if you're using a precompiled kernel of
course...


  // Marcus