On Fri, Oct 09, 2009 at 05:24:56PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote: > Package: kfreebsd-7 > Version: 7.2-9 > Severity: wishlist > > please consider adding the BOOTP, BOOTP_COMPAT, BOOTP_NFSROOT and BOOTP_NFSV3 > options to the kernel configurations. without the above defined options, it > requires a bootloader to set a laundry list of variables (including ip, > netmask, hwaddr and worst of all, an NFS handle) in order to use the NFS_ROOT > features already present in the default kernels. > > the only bootloader i've found that supports all of them is FreeBSD's > loader/pxeldr/pxeboot... which is not yet present in Debian. > > i believe the following options added to the 486 kernel, if not the other ones > as well, would at least make it easier to test NFS_ROOT on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > using grub2, and shouldn't change the default behavior in most cases.
Thanks, I have committed that to the SVN, it will be in the next upload. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73 aurel...@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
