Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751496AbWA0QI7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:08:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751497AbWA0QI7 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:08:59 -0500 Received: from hierophant.serpentine.com ([66.92.13.71]:36007 "EHLO demesne.serpentine.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751496AbWA0QI6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Jan 2006 11:08:58 -0500 Subject: Re: netboot broken ? From: "Bryan O'Sullivan" To: Knut Petersen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43D9C8C5.3020902@t-online.de> References: <43D9C8C5.3020902@t-online.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:08:58 -0800 Message-Id: <1138378138.4801.9.camel@obsidian> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.5.4 (2.5.4-2) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 674 Lines: 18 On Fri, 2006-01-27 at 08:16 +0100, Knut Petersen wrote: > Any ideas? Can anybody please > - confirm that network booting does still work > - confirm that it is broken. Network booting has been in limbo for years, and hasn't had a lick of maintenance in approximately forever. The way forward is supposed to be via initramfs, but nobody is testing the nfsroot code in there, so it has a fair probability of not working.