PROBLEM: mounting root via NFS

Gero Kuhlmann (gero@gkminix.han.de)
Sun, 21 Feb 1999 01:57:10 +0100 (MET)

[1.] Error while trying to mount root via NFS
[2.] The IPv4 autoconfiguration code doesn't accept the root server parameter
from the kernel command line correctly.
[3.] networking, NFS, IPv4 autoconfiguration
[4.] 2.2.0
[8.] Bug fix:

--- net/ipv4/ipconfig.c.old Sun Feb 7 11:31:30 1999
+++ net/ipv4/ipconfig.c Sun Feb 21 01:45:59 1999
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@
*/
if (ic_myaddr == INADDR_NONE ||
#ifdef CONFIG_ROOT_NFS
- root_server_addr == INADDR_NONE ||
+ ic_servaddr == INADDR_NONE ||
#endif
(ic_first_dev && ic_first_dev->next)) {
#ifdef CONFIG_IP_PNP_DYNAMIC

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Gero Kuhlmann, Hannover     0511/6497525 (Voice)        gero@gkminix.han.de


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