Los Alamos National Lab's security team has been asked to integrate LTSP 
version 5 into RHEL 4 and 5 to support their high security environments, and 
have been taking a look at how things are done in the stateless project for any 
clues that might help them out.

While perusing the stateless linux stuff over at Fedora they noted a
command to setup an initrd for diskless boot with NFS root:

$> mkinitrd --with=XXX --rootopts=ro,nolock --net-dev=eth0 
--rootdev=myserver:/export/NFSroots/FC6 --rootfs=nfs 
initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6  


For their purposes, they need to  dynamically determine the root device
at boot  time. This would be passed using the DHCP "option root-path"
directive. The --rootdev, --rootopts, and --rootfs are not documented
in the man  page for mkinitrd. Is there any way do what they need to
do? If so, how? Or (better yet) what other information from the lab
would help?

Thanks.

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