Re: nfsrooting

Hauke Fath <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
At 7:39 Uhr -0800 7.2.2017, Rob Braun wrote:
>Do you mean unchecking the "Enabled" option in the booter, which will
>not set a root device, then not have any local filesystems, and
>allowing the kernel to try network interfaces until it finds something?

I netbooted my share of mac68k kernels (I wrote the Booter's bootp client
way back then), but I don't remember it mattered what you set there.

>IMO, there's a difference between wanting to root off nfs,

... in the presence of a valid and workable local root fs ...

>and wanting to kernel to root off the first device it finds.

Sure.

>The problem here from my perspective is most other ports allow
>specifying root=, where the mac68k booter is limited to a
>set of radio buttons to choose between ata and scsi.

I said it could come handy, didn't I?  ;)

Cheerio,
Hauke


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