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Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 16:21:16 -0700
From: Samuel Flory <sflory@rackable.com>
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Subject: Re: root=nfs no longer works in 2.4.22
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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@rackable.com>


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