[syslinux] RE: SYSLINUX digest, Vol 1 #102 - 4 msgs

[Jim Wright]

On Wed, 15 May 2002 robvog at hetnet.nl wrote:

> > How do you tell the kernel the  root FS?
> I have:
> In /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default
> default linux root=/dev/nfs nfsaddrs=192.168.1.1:192.168.1.1:192.168.1.1:255.255.255.0:netserver:eth0 nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/netboot/base
> where netboot/base is where root for client system begins.

I have several pxelinux servers set up.  here's part of the config
for one of them.

LABEL linux
    KERNEL pxe-vmlinuz
    APPEND root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp nfsroot=192.168.99.1:/tftpboot/commonroot/


> Next thing I will try to mount directory on other normal linux computer, as you said.

good advice.  nfsroot will not work until you make sure the nfs server
is working.

> Does anyone know what error 22 means?

% errno 22
Invalid argument