Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 11:05 -0400, Dave Miner wrote: >> We have been moving network installation away from bootparams for a >> number of years due to its non-standard nature and lack of a reasonable >> ability to support any network topology beyond simple LANs. Requiring >> its use here is not defensible when ample methods for solving the >> boot-device location problem exist using DHCP or other standard protocols. > > Sounds like we could reduce the likelihood of missteps like this if we > were to approve a case (not this case) formally reclassifying bootparams > as Obsolete, with DHCP as the designated successor. >
I'd figured that would be something I'd include when we came with the eventual update to Jumpstart, but yeah, perhaps we should just do it now. Dave
