Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Sep 2002 11:31:53 +1000 | From | David Gibson <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Pull NFS server address off root_server_path |
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On Fri, Sep 13, 2002 at 10:28:29AM +1000, Martin Schwenke wrote: > >>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes: > > Alan> You are probably much better using the initrd based dhcp > Alan> client from things like the LTSP project (ltsp.org) than the > Alan> kernel one > > That's probably true in the long term. For the short term, is the > initrd-based stuff working right now? I didn't think it was quite > there yet...
Well, initrd works (as opposed to the still-in-progress initramfs), but setting up an image to do the DHCP, NFS mount and pivot_root is a pain in the bum. LTSP is all i386 (afaict), which helps me not at all.
> If the patch goes in now, I won't be terribly disappointed if it comes > back out, along with (most of) the rest of the ipconfig stuff, if the > initrd-based stuff works acceptably before the feature freeze... > > I would think that if there's a chance that the ipconfig stuff will > stay in for 2.6, and this patch improves it, then it should probably > be merged. The patch has been in use at OzLabs for about 6 months > (since I moved the DHCP server off the NFS server :-) to help boot the > embedded boxes that David Gibson is doing bring-up work on.
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