Commit 010a6246 authored by Alessandro Rubini's avatar Alessandro Rubini Committed by Adam Wujek

doc and binaries use root=/dev/nfs

Signed-off-by: Alessandro Rubini's avatarAlessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
parent ce226579
......@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ bootargs="verbose console=ttyS0,115200 panic=10"
# Pass IP information to the kernel (or ipinfo="dhcp" to re-request)
ipinfo="$eth0.ipaddr:$eth0.serverip:$eth0.gateway:$eth0.netmask:wrs:eth0"
bootargs="$bootargs root=nfs rw ip=$ipinfo"
bootargs="$bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw ip=$ipinfo"
# I you want, specify a non-default root directory
bootargs="$bootargs nfsroot=/opt/root/wrs,tcp"
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......@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ bootargs="verbose console=ttyS0,115200 panic=10"
# Pass IP information to the kernel
ipinfo="$eth0.ipaddr:$eth0.serverip:$eth0.gateway:255.255.255.0:wrs:eth0"
bootargs="$bootargs root=nfs rw ip=$ipinfo"
bootargs="$bootargs root=/dev/nfs rw ip=$ipinfo"
# I you want, specify a non-default root directory
bootargs="$bootargs nfsroot=/opt/root/wrs,tcp"
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......@@ -914,7 +914,8 @@ the following command in a newly-created empty directory:
To boot with NFS-root you should use a custom boot script,
as described in the section @i{Using wrboot}, in the @i{@sc{wrs} User's
Manual}.
Manual}. Please note that the kernel now needs @t{root=/dev/nfs},
as the old convention @t{root=nfs} is not supported any more.
The archives include a number of device special files in
@i{dev}. The pre-created devices come from
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......@@ -1412,6 +1412,9 @@ The individual menu items perform the following actions:
If you use the @i{wrboot} script option, you can for example run
an NFS-Root system or do whatever customization and testing you want.
@b{Note}: with 2.6.39 we suggested use of @t{root=nfs}, but this
convention is no more supported in Linux, please use @t{root=/dev/nfs}.
The complete filesystem after a successful build is called
@t{images/wrs-image.tar.gz}, and is not included in the release
firmware file, because an installed switch runs an @i{initramfs}
......@@ -1491,10 +1494,18 @@ of known-working wrboot scripts as examples;
@section Creating an NFS-Root Environment for WRS
In order to create an NFS root directory, you should uncompress
@t{wrs-image.tar.gz} that is created at build time. If you use
@t{wrs-image.tar.gz} that is created at build time in a newly-created
empty directory:
@example
tar xzf $WRS_OUTPUT_DIR/images/wrs-image.tar.gz
@end example
If you use
a released @t{wrs-firmware.tar}, however, you'll have no overall
filesystem for the switch, and you should rebuild it from two
parts. This is how to create your NFS filesystem (please adapt
parts. This is how to create your NFS filesystem from a
released @t{wrs-firmware} file (please adapt
for your local pathnames):
@example
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