Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 18 Dec 2001 21:33:27 +0100 (MET) | From | "Maciej W. Rozycki" <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.17-rc1 wont do nfs root on Javastation |
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On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, David S. Miller wrote:
> I really think it should be a compile-time option to have it default to on, > but I never figured out who maintains it. > > How then would you get a generic, yet NFS-ROOT capable kernel? > Answer: you can't
Still it's quite dumb you *have* to specify "ip=<whatever>" whenever you specify "root=nfs" to boot successfully, since the latter usually implies you need IP to work. I have a hack that fixes it (I need it due to a 37-character limit of a bootstrap command line in a firmware), but I recall a discussion the conclusion of which was the current behaviour is blessed, so I didn't even try to bother anyone with it...
-- + Maciej W. Rozycki, Technical University of Gdansk, Poland + +--------------------------------------------------------------+ + e-mail: macro@ds2.pg.gda.pl, PGP key available +
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