From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 1 17:49:13 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9740C106564A for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:49:13 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from seanbru@yahoo-inc.com) Received: from mrout2.yahoo.com (mrout2.yahoo.com [216.145.54.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E438FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 17:49:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (cheese.corp.yahoo.com [216.145.50.99]) by mrout2.yahoo.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/y.out) with ESMTP id o61Hjb5U015427; Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:45:37 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=serpent; d=yahoo-inc.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=subject:from:reply-to:to:cc:in-reply-to:references: content-type:date:message-id:mime-version:x-mailer:content-transfer-encoding; b=D28o8O0DmxJEzZoM3nf0zkq76IcTmcq6fyFc594QmtvhobrrdDe6JmaO8i27NoLI From: Sean Bruno To: Garrett Cooper In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:45:37 -0700 Message-ID: <1278006337.2438.90.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.3 (2.28.3-1.fc12) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: Set default pxeboot vfs.root.mountfrom to nfs? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: sbruno@freebsd.org List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:49:13 -0000 On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:07 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Hi Hackers, > I realize this is a trivial patch, but it's a minor item that I > found kind of fascinating (and not thoroughly documented elsewhere > because many examples are booting mfsroots instead of directly booting > off nfs roots), but I'm proposing that pxeboot default to > vfs.root.mountfrom="nfs" to reduce the need for special case > loader.conf files just for pxe booting (and thus, enable > out-of-the-box netbooting ^o^!!!). > Thoughts? > Thanks! > -Garrett I'll just give this a +1 and move on. sean