Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: PATCH: Enable IP PNP for 2.4.4-ac8 | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 15 May 2001 07:21:59 -0600 |
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David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> writes:
> ebiederm@xmission.com said: > > There wasn't even DHCP support before so yes you did. As you can't > > get the nfs mount point from bootp. > > Wasn't there a default? The Indy behind me seems to try to mount > /tftpboot/172.16.18.195, so I put a filesystem there just to make it happy. > > It's a 2.4.3 kernel.
Duh. I forgot about the default path.
> > Well I think in the CONFIG_BLK_DEV=n case it might wind up being a > > ramfs or tmpfs image. Something like a simplified version of tar. > > Well, if it stops working and stays broken, I suppose I'll just have to > hack up a built-in command line option. ISTR ARM already has such an option. > > I'd rather it didn't break, though.
The clean way to handle it, and I'll take a look it to have root=/dev/nfs (and the rdev equivalent) to set ip=on if it isn't already. The current 2.4.4 behavior of root=/dev/hda3 doing ip autoconfig when the code is compiled into the kernel is just bad.
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