Re: NFS mounted rootfs possible via PCMCIA NIC ?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 21:53, Andreas Schaufler wrote:
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> Hello list,
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> I am trying to configure a notebook with a PCMCIA NIC to boot over network. 
> (kernel 2.4.20)
> In order to accomplish this I passed over the neccessary configuration 
> paramters through the boot loader (ip, root, nfsroot)
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> The problem is: When the kernel is booting it is trying to configure the 
> Network interface, before it has been activated.

PCMCIA relies in part on user space. You can do this, it involves
building a large initrd with a dhcp client on it that sets up pcmcia,
then nfs mounts stuff, then pivot_root()'s into it. Its not exactly
trivial