Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-20 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 11:02:10PM +, Russell King wrote: > Ben LaHaise writes: > > Yeah, that's the problem I was trying to work around, mostly because the > > docs on dhcpd are sufficiently vague and obscure. Personally, I don't > > actually need tftp support, so I've just configured the sy

Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-20 Thread Russell King
Ben LaHaise writes: > Yeah, that's the problem I was trying to work around, mostly because the > docs on dhcpd are sufficiently vague and obscure. Personally, I don't > actually need tftp support, so I've just configured the system to now > point at the NFS server. For anyone who cares, the last

Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-20 Thread Tom Rini
On Tue, Feb 20, 2001 at 01:12:28PM -0500, Ben LaHaise wrote: > On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > > > Er, say that again? Right now, for bootp if you specify "sa=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > > Linux uses that as the host for the NFS server (which does have the side > > effect of if TFTP server != NFS

Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-20 Thread Ben LaHaise
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Tom Rini wrote: > Er, say that again? Right now, for bootp if you specify "sa=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" > Linux uses that as the host for the NFS server (which does have the side > effect of if TFTP server != NFS server, you don't boot). Are you saying > your patch takes "rp=xxx.xxx

Re: [PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-20 Thread Tom Rini
On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:12:12PM -0500, Ben LaHaise wrote: > Here's a handy little patch that makes the kernel parse out the ip > address of the nfs server from the bootp root path. Otherwise it's > impossible to boot the kernel without command line options on diskless > workstations (I hate R

[PATCH] make nfsroot accept server addresses from BOOTP root

2001-02-19 Thread Ben LaHaise
Hello, Here's a handy little patch that makes the kernel parse out the ip address of the nfs server from the bootp root path. Otherwise it's impossible to boot the kernel without command line options on diskless workstations (I hate RPL). -ben diff -ur v2.4.1-ac18/fs/nfs/nfsroo