Devadas Vishwanath wrote: > This is to clarify Avinash's post. snooping shows that the client does not > request for the > root-path(Option 7) in its dhcprequest. ISC dhcpd by default does not send an > option > if the client does not request for it. In this case ISC dhcpd does not send > the root-option > because the client never requested for it. Therefore the boot fails. The only > workaround for > this is to force ISC dhcpd to send the root-path even if the client did not > request for it. > This is done by using the option dhcp-parameter-request-list. With this > change, the boot > works fine. This is not an issue with Opensolaris dhcpd because the root-path > is automatically > sent by dhcpd despite the client not requesting for it. > > ISC dhcpd users will keep running into this issue. While there is a > workaround, a more straight > forward solution for this would be making the client request for > root-path(Option 7) in > its dhcprequest. Should we file a bug for this ? > Yes. File a bug. The root-path information is already provided to wanboot (from wanboot.conf) but wanboot doesn't pass any configuration to the install program. There is an enhancement request 6820873 filed to provide the information. Once the enhancement is implemented, we don't need root-path.
- Sundar
