Bug#380686: initramfs-tools: busybox mount doesn't support nfs

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:57:02AM -0700, vagrant+bugs@freegeek.org wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 02:03:09PM -0700, Vagrant Cascadian wrote:
> > when setting BOOT=nfs and trying to boot, the nfs mount fails, because
> > busybox mount does not support nfs mounting (debian bug #348664:
> > busybox: consider CONFIG_NFSMOUNT)
> ...snip... 
> > is there any way around this (to get regular mount installed in the
> > initramfs)?
> 
> well, my ugly workaround was to add a hook that installs /bin/mount to
> /mount, and hack /usr/share/ltsp/scripts/nfs to use /mount directly.
> 
> not at all ideal, but it seems to work.

sure initramfs-tools is flexible.

i'm in exam time atm so quite busy,
i thought this busybox mount would make you happy for now.
very unhappy that the opposite is true.

so current direction is
- improve nfsmount in klibc # find out what is missing or buggy
- have a sane nfs option parsing in init

hoped to do it today but studies hold me up.
patches in aboves directions will be merged,
also you can help me if you publish your qemu args,
which usually contains the bootargs.

so that i can better take care of nfsrootstuff.
this is definitely holding up initramfs-tools to testing,
as there we use nfsmount from klibc solution, which works
for some setups.

regards

--
maks