Re: NFSv4 and nfsroot

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On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 23:59 -0400, Eric Thibodeau wrote:
> I've set up nfsroot based systems before but I am now attempting to do 
> the same thing using nfsv4 using the _in-kernel_ nfsroot support (ie: no 
> initrd with script that does the mounting). I have been unable to find 
> "authoritative" references to how to accomplish this and wanted to ask 
> for solid references before I start polluting the mailing list with my 
> probably completely erroneous approach. Things that might be worth 
> mentioning:

nfsroot for NFSv4 is not supported. You can still do it by using an
initrd file in order to bootstrap the necessary user-space utilities
like the idmapper (and possibly rpc.gssd) before mounting the partition
and pivoting.

Cheers
  Trond

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