From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Warren Togami Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Move actually mounting the root filesystem into its own series of hooks. Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 19:24:35 -0500 Message-ID: <49A33E43.5010602@redhat.com> References: <3188506a1f06de54ee7874fc45261f5c2faf9e79.1235283966.git.victor.lowther@gmail.com> <49A301FF.2090303@redhat.com> <1235434056.28090.28.camel@sentry-no.fnordovax.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1235434056.28090.28.camel-76q0VzFBGGr21HsLBtNmTckMGDeJXHgy@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: initramfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html