> :> I am not happy at all with the rootfsid hacks I made a few months ago
> :> but I didn't have time to do anything about it at the time and I had
> :> to get BOOTP working again after someone left it broken for a couple
> :> of weeks.
> :
> :Well, bootp in the kernel has to die too.
>
> Huh? And replace it with what? BOOTP is the only way to get an NFS
> root and swap.
No; that's what the loader is for. The kernel shouldn't be doing any
application-level snot like BOOTP at all.
The same work was previously done by netboot; putting bootp into the
kernel was _always_ the wrong idea.
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