Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:20:03 GMT From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/91720: pxeboot always tries to do an rpc call to an nfs-server Message-ID: <200601201520.k0KFK3hR016070@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/91720; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To: Ruben Kerkhof <ruben.kerkhof@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/91720: pxeboot always tries to do an rpc call to an nfs-server
Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:13:26 +0000
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:12:30PM +0100, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> On 1/20/06, Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:29:08PM +0100, Ruben Kerkhof wrote:
> > > I tested the NFS path as well, nothing broke :-)
> >
> > Ah, good man! Will pass it on to my mentor for review then.
> >
> > Thanks very much for your help!
> >
> > Ceri
> >
>
> One thing I just thought about is that I tested NFS with
> -DLOADER_NFS_SUPPORT. I haven't tested it with -DTFTP_SUPPORT, so I
> don't know how diskless clients behave in that case.
OK, no problem. I suspect that they break, or at least
boot.nfsroot.nfshandle won't get set and there is code in the client
specifically for the diskless case that expects to find something in
there.
I'll try to set up a test environment and see. Thanks for the warning.
Ceri
--
That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all.
-- Moliere
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