Summary: booting with a combination of local/remote partitions?

From: Tom Lislegaard (tl@cmi.no)
Date: Tue Mar 31 1992 - 07:50:05 CST


Original question was how to boot automatically with remote root/local
swap.

A large number of answers all agree that this is simple, just
specify carefully the kernel config line:

  config vmunix root on nfs swap on type spec xy0b

Some also say that you can drop the bootparam entry for swap.
I didn't test this, just left the bootparams with a zero length
swap-file to get things started.

thanks to the following who responded:

nassio%cfassp8@harvard.harvard.edu (George Nassiopoulos P-353 495-7181)
hoop@noaacrd.Colorado.EDU (Don Hooper)
kalli!kevin@fourx.aus.sun.com (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})
Mike Raffety <miker@sbcoc.com>
fallan@baobab.awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)
chip@eniac.seas.upenn.edu (Charles H. Buchholtz)
Sven Ole Skrivervik <svenole@sdata.no>
Eckhard.Rueggeberg@ts.go.dlr.de
Andreas Karrer <karrer@bernina.ethz.ch>
Travis L Priest <travis@cs.odu.edu>
stern@sunne.east.sun.com (Hal Stern - NE Area Systems Engineer)
kla!brandari%sunra@Sun.COM (Paul Brandariz x6546)
vasey@issi.com (Ron Vasey)
Mario Nigrovic <mario@wdc.sps.mot.com>

-tom

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