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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root
    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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