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Subject: Re: how to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root file
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On 28.07.2011, at 03:54, satish kondapalli wrote:

> Hi,
>=20
> How to configure freeBSD kernel to mount NFS as a root filesystem.=20
> In case of Linux we will set the bootargs ( In kernel command line =
args, we
> will give the server ip and path of file system.)
>=20
> 1) In Free BSD, make installworld  will install all the utils in =
DESTDIR,
> that DESTDIR we can use as the file system. am i correct?

Yes export $DESTDIR via NFSv3

> 2) If my first point is correct then how to configure my kernel  =
DESTDIR as
> a root filesytem. where to give the path of DESTDIR and DESTDIR =
machine IP
> in the kernel.

Your kernel needs to support (options NFS_ROOT). If you can't run =
/boot/loader than define the rootfs in the kernel config (options =
ROOTDEVNAME=3D\"ufs:/dev/ufs/rootfs\").=