[Q] Booting kernel from NFS?
Baurzhan Ismagulov
ibr at radix50.net
Tue Mar 22 07:21:18 EDT 2011
On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 04:13:04PM +0800, Chen Wenjie wrote:
> I am debuging some issues on an arm-arch board.
> now, I have to compile the whole kernel, download zImage to the target board
> and reboot the board again and again. Since the relations between the
> source files are complex, it is difficult to just write a module for insmod/rmmod.
>
> My question is: is there any way to boot the kernel from NFS? so we can
> use zImage on the host machine through an ethernet/USB cable. Then we needn't
> download the zImage file to the target board when we debug it.
>
> Is there any bootloader with this feature? Any comments?
> (now I use bootloader LK("Little Kernel"))
U-Boot can download the kernel over TFTP.
With kind regards,
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Baurzhan Ismagulov
http://www.kz-easy.com/
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