> I tried 2.1.79 pre 1 and it still has problems with nfs-root.
>
> I crashes when trying to mount the root-filesystem over NFS.
> It gives and oops about NULL pointer dereferencing in function
> do_mount_root() , file fs/super.c , line xxxxxx
>
> I posted a fix for it before to linux-kernel ( subject is :
> "Made nfs-root work with 2.1.78 !" )
>
> and here it is again at the end of mail.
>
> But there is a new problem . After mounting root , it cannot find
> init !!!
> It suggests using the init= command line option , but that doesnt help either.
>
> init is off course present in /sbin and work well under 2.0.33
I use NFSroot on a couple of local machines and it works very well without
your patch. Maybe your setup is different -- can you send me your .config?
Have a nice fortnight
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