On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:12:12PM -0500, Ben LaHaise wrote:
> Here's a handy little patch that makes the kernel parse out the ip
> address of the nfs server from the bootp root path. Otherwise it's
> impossible to boot the kernel without command line options on diskless
> workstations (I hate RPL).
Er, say that again? Right now, for bootp if you specify "sa=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx"
Linux uses that as the host for the NFS server (which does have the side
effect of if TFTP server != NFS server, you don't boot). Are you saying
your patch takes "rp=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/foo/root" ? Just curious, since I
don't know, whats the RFC say about this?
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