Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 13:12:28 -0500 (EST) | From | Ben LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root |
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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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