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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: netboot broken ?
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 11:03:44 -0800 (PST)
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Followup to:  <1138378138.4801.9.camel@obsidian>
By author:    "Bryan O'Sullivan" <bos@serpentine.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> 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.
> 

Feel free to pull the unified git repository and help test:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-klibc.git

I really would appreciate both positive and negative bug reports.

	-hpa
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