On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tom Rini wrote:
> 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?
Yeah, that's the problem I was trying to work around, mostly because the
docs on dhcpd are sufficiently vague and obscure. Personally, I don't
actually need tftp support, so I've just configured the system to now
point at the NFS server. For anyone who cares, the last patch was wrong,
this one is right.
-ben
diff -ur v2.4.1-ac18/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c work/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c
--- v2.4.1-ac18/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c Mon Sep 25 16:13:53 2000
+++ work/fs/nfs/nfsroot.c Tue Feb 20 01:59:32 2001
@@ -226,6 +226,7 @@
if (name[0] && strcmp(name, "default")) {
strncpy(buf, name, NFS_MAXPATHLEN-1);
buf[NFS_MAXPATHLEN-1] = 0;
+ root_nfs_parse_addr(buf);
}
}
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