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Bug#986741: Please enable CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y in cloud image



Control: reassign -1 initramfs-tools
Control: tag -1 - wontfix
Control: forcemerge 789067 -1

On Sat, 2021-04-10 at 15:36 -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 11:23:53PM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 10, 2021 at 02:11:06PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > > For cloud instances and VMs, it's helpful to be able to use ip=dhcp as a
> > > minimal network configuration. Enabling this option will do nothing
> > > unless the kernel command line includes ip=dhcp.
> > 
> > We don't support initramfs-less boot.
> 
> Whether you have an initramfs or not is orthogonal to DHCP
> configuration. The kernel's built-in DHCP configuration works even if
> you're not using a network filesystem as the root filesystem.

The initramfs is supposed to take responsibility for handling all of
the legacy boot parameters.  Moving this to initramfs-tools and merging
it with the existing bug there.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Life would be so much easier if we could look at the source code.

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