On Wed, 13 Nov 1996 14:27:44 +0000 
 Peter Maydell <pm215@cam.ac.uk> wrote:

 > <fx: bang head against wall> URL would have been handy :-)
 > http://mnementh.trin.cam.ac.uk/hp/

Cool, I'll try and check that out Real Soon...

 > Other than rbootd, the only non-obvious thing is remounting
 > the root filesystem to read/write in 1K blocks so Linux' nfs
 > can handle it...

Oof!  That's unfortunate!  While you can remount root w/ 1k blocks,
your swap is still using the 4k block size!

You should try building a kernel with:

options  NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=1024

That way, when root/swap are mounted at boot time, they'll use 1k
blocks by default.

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