Re: DHCP/nfsroot not working

[Nic Ferrier <nferrier@tapsellferrier.co.uk>]

Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> writes:

> OK, given that nfsroot.txt seems to be a bit out of date, I'll try to
> remove the nfsroot= option to see if the kernel will then mount the
> directory from the NFS server given in the DHCP reply (in contrast to
> nfsroot.txt which says that it will mount /tftpboot/%s then).

AFAIK that doesn't work. The DHCP reply ("next-server" or
"server-name") don't translate to NFS locations.

The DHCP options are only available to the DHCP client config script.




Nic