[PATCH] m830lr support

Andrew Ip aip at cwlinux.com
Wed Aug 28 23:15:00 CEST 2002


Ron,

> I just turned on the M810 motherboard I got from cwlinux.com which came
> delivered with an DoC with linuxbios, linux, and a root file system.
> 
> with 512 MB in two slots, it is about 5 seconds from turnon to a screen,
> and about 10 seconds to a login prompt. Very impressive.
> 
> Andrew, from here I assume that if I had an IDE drive I would mount it and
> pivot_root?
Actually the kernel doesn't include ide driver because we want to speed up the
boot process.  However, it does support nfs if you need to mount something from
the network.  Since everything is based on uClibc and busybox, you need to do
$ mount -o nolock hostname:/data /data
to mount nfs volume.

-Andrew

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