Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:25:20 -0700 | | From | Tom Rini <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root |
| |
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:02:10PM +0000, Russell King wrote: > Ben LaHaise writes: > > 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. > > This is the dhcp entry for a host that I use to tftp a kernel from a > different machine to that running dhcpd: > > host tasslehoff > { > hardware ethernet 00:10:57:00:03:EC; > fixed-address tasslehoff; > next-server raistlin; > filename "/usr/src/k/tasslehoff"; > } > > The booting host is called "tasslehoff". The tftp server host is called > "raistlin", and the dhcp server is called "flint". > > According to Tom, this should also cause Linux to nfs mount from the > "next-server" address, and it is fair that this is not documented by > the dhcp man pages since it appears to be a Linux Kernel quirk.
Well, assuming next-server gets translated into TFTP server by the dhcp-doing-bootp bit, yes. I'm using that right now to bootp on one box and NFS off another.
-- Tom Rini (TR1265) http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
|  |