Victor Lowther wrote:
root=dhcp is a kernel cmdline given by the bootloader (syslinux, grub, pxelinux, etc.) which directs the initrd during runtime to bring up eth0 and do DHCP. It then mounts the rootfs depending on options given by the DHCP server. Fedora 10 mkinitrd implements the following two types of mounts with root=dhcp.option root-path "172.31.100.254:/path/to/target_root"; option root-path "nbd:172.31.100.254:2000:squashfs:ro";Interesting -- I have been working on implementing code to detect and configure network interfaces according to the netboot.txt kernel document. The code I have written so far is browseable at http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut/log/?h=network-configurability (and it even works some of the time), and I would appreciate input from someone who actually uses that functionality on a daily basis.
What is "netboot.txt document"? Where is it from? Warren Togami wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
