From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Seewer Philippe Subject: Re: How do we want to handle configuring network boot devices? Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 15:18:00 +0200 Message-ID: <4A1FE088.4080904@bfh.ch> References: <1243126816.4217.248.camel@obelisk.thedillows.org> <4A1EB0D2.30500@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4A1EB0D2.30500-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> Sender: initramfs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" To: Harald Hoyer Cc: initramfs Harald Hoyer wrote: > Ok, I updated > https://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/wiki/commandline > for the boot mechanism we should support in our first version. I removed > the URI style root, because I misread the iscsi root path syntax the > first time (no "//" involved). > > Please correct/extend the list. suggestions: root=dhcp < get IP from dhcp server, root-path option from dhcp specifies root location --- > get IP from dhcp server, root-path option from dhcp specifies root location, implies ip=dhcp NFS < root=[:][,] < root=??? nfsroot=[:][,] --- > root=nfs:[:][,] > root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=[:][,] or < root=[:][,] < root=??? nfsroot=[:][,] --- > root=nfs:[:][,] > root=[ignored] nfsroot=[:][,] [ignored] applies to nbd, etc as well. > For e.g. password/user authentication, we have to inject conf files in > the cpio archive, because /proc/cmdline is readable by everyone or use > the dhcp root_path or other dhcp options. I really suggest to ignore authenticated networks and -mounts for now. dracut v2 can handle that... -- 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