>Number: 175671 >Category: kern >Synopsis: BOOTP_NFSROOT option is effectively "always on" >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Tue Jan 29 12:50:00 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> >Release: FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT >Organization: Symmetricom, Inc. >Environment: FreeBSD dpnand 10.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #9 r246001M: Tue Jan 29 05:33:08 MST 2013 r...@revolution.hippie.lan:/local/build/staging/freebsd/dp10/obj/arm.arm/local/build/staging/freebsd/dp10/src/sys/DP-NFSROOT arm
>Description: When the BOOTP option is included in the kernel config, the system will not boot unless the server provides a root path. The presence or absence of the BOOTP_NFSROOT and ROOTDEVNAME= options has no effect on this behavior. It should be possible to specify BOOTP and ROOTDEVNAME without BOOTP_NFSROOT so that the kernel obtains IP-related information from the server and then mounts root from the path specified with ROOTDEVNAME. It may be reasonable and useful to use any server-provided path as a fallback if ROOTDEVNAME doesn't work (i.e., store the server-provided name in rootdevnames[1]). >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"