Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:16:44 +0100
From:      Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
To:        Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] make BOOTP not panic working PXE configs
Message-ID:  <EBDADAFC-5C9C-11D8-8B81-000A27B4B4E0@webweaving.org>
In-Reply-To: <20040211010009.GA1211@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
References:  <20040211010009.GA1211@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help

On 11/02/2004, at 2:00 AM, Brooks Davis wrote:

> When using the PXE loader and a stock kernel you can specify the root
> path as with "option root-path" with a path like
> "/usr/diskless/5.2-CURRENT".  The server is then derived from the value
> of next-server (the siaddr entry in the dhcp packet).  If you add
> options BOOTP to your kernel this configuration causes a panic because
> the kernel wants a root path like "10.1.0.1:/usr/diskless/5.2-CURRENT".
> This has been annoying me for quite some time so today I took a look at
> the problem.  The following patch fixes it.  I'd like to commit it 
> soon,
> any objections?
>
Yes please! - tested and fixes a long standing problem for us.

Dw.



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?EBDADAFC-5C9C-11D8-8B81-000A27B4B4E0>