Messages in this thread |  | | From | David Woodhouse <> | Subject | Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 | Date | Mon, 14 May 2001 10:29:47 +0100 |
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ebiederm@xmission.com said: > Since you have to set the command line anyway ip=dhcp is no extra > burden and it lets you use the same kernel to boot of the harddrive > etc.
You don't have to set the command line anyway. At least you _didn't_.
ebiederm@xmission.com said: > I boot diskless all of time and supporting a ramdisk is trivial. You > just a have a program that slaps a kernel a ramdisk, and some command > line arguments into a single image, along with a touch of adapter code > to set the kernel parameters correctly and then boot that.
It's a PITA. Downloading a kernel by TFTP each time you make a one-line change is painful enough, without having to download a ramdisk to go with it.
And once those kernels are being built with CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n, the ramdisk is going to be an even more unattractive solution.
-- dwmw2
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