Re: root=nfs no longer works in 2.4.22

[Samuel Flory]

Michael Pruznick wrote:

> Was root=nfs removed on purpose or is it an unexpected
> side effect of the "ROOT NFS fixes" patch from late
> July 2003?
>
> I understand this patch from the point of wanting to
> eliminate nfs attempts when nfs is not requested.  That
> is clearly a reasonable thing to do.  However, "root=nfs"
> is a nfs request that has been accepted in the past, I've
> been told, because nfs isn't a real device (but maybe it
> was accepted as bug and this patch fixed it).
>
>  
 
  So something like this doesn't work?
root=/dev/nfs ip=::::::dhcp nfsroot=10.10.1.1:/nfsroot

 I know that this was work in rc2.

--
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(The First Rule of Hardware Acquisition)
Sam Flory  <sflory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>


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