On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Seewer Philippe wrote:
Though I see a small problem: Ever thought about what happens if
there are multiple interfaces on different networks? Only one is
valid to mount the root-fs...
The Debian initramfs-tools documents as following here the rule from
the kernel's nfsroot.txt which allows an ip=... kernel command line
parameter which can contain the name of the device. Is this an option
that would fit your purpose ?
From what I know, there is no automated way to get that information
automatically in the format described, so you'd have to maintain it,
possibly in a PXE config file; it's possible to find out what
interface was used for PXE booting when using PXELINUX with the
'IPAPPEND 2' option which will add a BOOTIF=mac_address to the kernel
command line.
This might however not be enough: there could be a case where the
booting (via PXE) is done on a different network (and interface) than
the one where the root NFS is exported. I know that this sounds
complicated, but it has been implemented in real life ;-)
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