Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2019 21:40:30 -0600 From: Rebecca Cran <rebecca@bluestop.org> To: Lucian Carata <lc525@cam.ac.uk>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot from NFS in an UEFI environment Message-ID: <5e06c19f-4d95-afc5-155b-a1b2d3bed88b@bluestop.org> In-Reply-To: <2fafa521-0d34-522b-9a39-0689efbd7f3a@cam.ac.uk> References: <2fafa521-0d34-522b-9a39-0689efbd7f3a@cam.ac.uk>
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On 3/20/19 11:21 AM, Lucian Carata wrote: > Looking through the source code (stand/efi/loader/main.c) I see that there is an attempt to list devices, with a comment saying "this handle list is only for netboot" -- which shows that at least netbooting on UEFI has been considered, but I'm not sure how to pass the path of the NFS root so that the boot continues. > > Any ideas on how to do this (or something equivalent) would be greatly appreciated. stand/efi/conf.c does have nfs_fsops, so it should be supported. Maybe an obvious question, but have you tried setting the DHCP option 'root-path' ? -- Rebecca Cran
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