Package: kfreebsd-7
Version: 7.2-9
Severity: wishlist
please consider adding the BOOTP, BOOTP_COMPAT, BOOTP_NFSROOT and BOOTP_NFSV3
options to the kernel configurations. without the above defined options, it
requires a bootloader to set a laundry list of variables (including ip,
netmask, hwaddr and worst of all, an NFS handle) in order to use the NFS_ROOT
features already present in the default kernels.
the only bootloader i've found that supports all of them is FreeBSD's
loader/pxeldr/pxeboot... which is not yet present in Debian.
i believe the following options added to the 486 kernel, if not the other ones
as well, would at least make it easier to test NFS_ROOT on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD
using grub2, and shouldn't change the default behavior in most cases.
diff -u kfreebsd-7-7.2/debian/arch/i386/486.config kfreebsd-7-7.2/debian/arch/i386/486.config
--- kfreebsd-7-7.2/debian/arch/i386/486.config
+++ kfreebsd-7-7.2/debian/arch/i386/486.config
@@ -18,4 +18,10 @@
device fb
+# Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
+options BOOTP
+options BOOTP_COMPAT
+# NFS mount root file system using BOOTP info
+options BOOTP_NFSROOT
+options BOOTP_NFSV3
#include GENERIC
with those added, a crude port of LTSP should not be far off...
live well,
vagrant
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