Re: nfsrooting
Hauke Fath <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k |
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On Mon, 6 Feb 2017 12:05:12 -0800, Rob Braun wrote: > Currently, the mac68k booter allows specifying the ata or scsi > device to root from, and passes that to the kernel, which the kernel > then uses. So, in mac68k, the kernel will only root from one of those. That appears to be not correct, from what I can piece together from both my server and my memory: Said doorstop netbsd-5 kernel (the netboot setup is from 2012) is a plain GENERICSBC kernel, and options NFS_BOOT_DHCP which is active in GENERIC should be all that's needed to boot from NFS - unless there is a workable local root fs, I guess, in which case you'd need to declare config netbsd root on ? type nfs > The exception is that you can compile a custom kernel specifying a > network interface as a root device and it'll then do all the rest. No, see above. > This just allows the booter to tell the kernel to use a network interface > as a root device without building a custom kernel. It'll do that anyway. The use I can see for your change, though: Override booting from a local fs when the kernel is set up to use a wildcard. Cheerio, hauke -- Hauke Fath <[email protected]> Ernst-Ludwig-Straße 15 64625 Bensheim Germany