nvnet drivers in kernel, not module?

[xaphod]

I need to build the nvnet (for network card)
into the kernel and not as module.
I need to be able to nfs-mount root
partition and I can't 'cause the modules
would be in the root-partition, which isn't
mounted yet :)

so, anyone done similar before or know
how to do it?

[Thunderbird]

It is not possible with the stuff nvidia provided to compile the nvnet driver into the kernel.
Why not add a very small partition something like: /boot which contains the needed stuff to boot?

Or another way would be to use "chroot" to switch to another "/" dir.

[sanat]

One way to do this is use PXELinux (http://syslinux.zytor.com/pxe.php) to load your kernel and an initrd (http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/initrd.txt) filesystem containing your modules and everything else you might need to boot. The Linux Terminal Server Project (http://www.ltsp.org/index.php) also has a method where they create links from the read-only mounted NFS filesystem to a ram disk for the temp files that the kernel needs to create when it loads modules.