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At this point the Base Installation is complete and the board should reboot to the RedBoot prompt. When wanting to install to a locally attached hard disk, a similar procedure can be used with changes as follows:

•In step 2 above, the installer should detect the hard disk and prompt for a partition and format the disk rather than having to enter NFS information.

•Additional installation steps may be useful depending on the needs; swap disks, additional partitions, etc.

•The workarounds in steps 5, 6, and 15 are not necessary.

•It is necessary to create the resolv.conf file on the disk.

To boot the new Debian NFS root based system, issue the following commands at the RedBoot prompt:

RedBoot> lo -r -v -b {kernel-load-addr} /zImage.iq80331

RedBoot> exec {kernel-run-addr}

The default Kernel command line parameters are setup for a Root NFS based system, with the NFS root directory name being taken from the DHCP server. The kernel command line parameters can be modified from the RedBoot prompt. The following example will use a locally attached disk as the Root File system. When the disk is not sda1, it is necessary to modify this as appropriate for the setup.

RedBoot> lo -r -v -b {kernel-load-addr} /zImage.iq80331

RedBoot> exec {kernel-run-addr} -c "ip=bootp root=/dev/sda1

console=ttyS0,115200 cachepolicy=writealloc"

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