Re: [RFC PATCH] Move actually mounting the root filesystem into its own series of hooks.

[Warren Togami <wtogami-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

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-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org
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