IP auto configuration & NFS root

Wakko Warner (wakko@animx.eu.org)
Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:29:59 -0400


1)
I noticed that when I booted linux on a diskless machine (well, it has a
floppy only) that bootp/rarp will timeout after so much time and give up.
How about a config option to not timeout (and not change query times)? I
modified the ipconfig.c (right one, I forgot) to force it not to timeout and
no higher delays.

2)
W/O changing nfsroot.c (or .h, I forget where it was, I did these mods a few
months ago) there's no way to change the default nfsroot mount point.
(Would be nice if it would retry if it gets an error from the server. This
one I haven't figured out yet <g>).

Anyone else use diskless machines like this? Here's what I usually do:
make my modifications (2 files), compile what I need, rdev zImage /dev/nfs
and then write it to a floppy (using cp zImage /dev/fd0). Much easier than
using other boot loaders (ok, so I can't pass parameters, but that's ok =)

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