[E3-hacking] Why won't my E3 boot?

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Mon Sep 4 20:26:13 BST 2006


On Mon, 2006-09-04 at 20:13 +0100, Matt Callow wrote:

> I've also found a patch
> http://www.lammerts.org/software/kernelpatches/nfsroot-hotplug_ethernet.patch
> which makes the kernel wait for a network device to appear. Seem to work
> too.

Sleeps for one second until a network device pops up, then tries using
it. It'll still be ultimately better to pivot into an NFS root since
that's cleaner than using this hack :-)

Jon.





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