PXE and booting from NFS server

laclac01_at_yahoo.com
Date: 11/04/05 

Date: 3 Nov 2005 16:38:31 -0800

I am trying to use PXE to boot a machine with no hard drive.
I am at one point but I am stuck.
Currently I have DHCP TFTP PXE and NFS all set up and running.
The machine uses dhcp then tftp and finally pxe to boot. It loads my
kernel
But I am not sure as to what my paramets should be in my config file
for pxe to tell it where the rootfile system is. The root file system
is on my nsf server 192.168.0.1
My pxe config file currently consists of this

label linux
 kernel vmlinuz
append APPEND ip=192.168.1.1 console=ttyS0,19200
initrd=initrd root=/dev/ram devfs=nocompat init=/linuxrc rw

This is the error message I get currently.
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0.
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k
block-major-1, errno = 2
VFS: Cannot open root device "ram" or 01:00
Please append a correct "root=" boot option
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 01:00

So how can I get it to look on my nft server in the /home/minilinux
director?
Thanks

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