Re: diskless installation and kernelparamter ip=...

Martin Maletinsky <maletinsky <at> scs.ch> writes:

> Now I am happy that my configuration works, but I'd still like to understand
> what happens. Can anyone tell me, what exactly is the difference between
> ip=autoconf and ip=dhcp.

Sure.  The "autoconf" option was split into two portions, "dhcp" and "bootp", to
give better control over which type of request was sent.  The DHCP request is
formatted slightly differently from the BOOTP request and not all servers
support both.

HTH