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* why? Can't I mount root filesystem from NFS otherwise? | * why? Can't I mount root filesystem from NFS otherwise? | ||
* and then what I need to do if I want to mount from HTTP? which option to give in that case? | * and then what I need to do if I want to mount from HTTP? which option to give in that case? | ||
- | * Refering http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/nfsroot.txt?v=linux-2.6 Hoping to get some answers | + | * http://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt it was great, cleared up many confusions about initRamFS |
+ | * http://lxr.linux.no/linux/Documentation/initrd.txt | ||
+ | * Referring http://fxr.watson.org/fxr/source/Documentation/nfsroot.txt?v=linux-2.6 Hoping to get some answers | ||
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+ | ==== Answers ==== | ||
+ | * It seems CONFIG_ROOT_FS can be entirely ignored :-) | ||
+ | * It is nothing but automatically mounting the NFS filesystem by kernel | ||
+ | * All things done by CONFIG_ROOT_FS can be done from initramfs. | ||
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+ | ===== Further Reading ===== | ||
+ | - Documentation/early-userspace/buffer-format.txt for CPIO format |