Re: [PATCH] Witness breakage

From: Brian Somers <brian_at_Awfulhak.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Jul 2004 23:30:37 +0100
On Thu, 8 Jul 2004 15:18:03 -0700 (PDT), Doug White <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 8 Jul 2004, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > There are no BOOTP or NFS related options.  See below
> 
> Therein lies the rub -- the removal of the BOOTP kernel option by brian_at_
> makes NFSCLIENT required, since the bootp client is tightly bound to the
> NFS client.  It should be backed out and bootp properly disentangled if
> its going to be mandatory. I've added him to the thread.
> 
> Brian, please back this out.
> 
> -- 
> Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
> dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org

Hmm, without options NFSCLIENT, you should be able to load nfsclient.ko then
set bootp="YES" and bootp.nfsboot="YES"....

But having said that, I'm just about to back this change out anyway - see
the follow-up email to the commit message.  It seems that what I did was
not only unnecessary as the kernel picks up the pxeboot(8)'ed NFS root
partititon automatically without having to do the BOOTP stuff itself, but
also that the only reason options BOOTP* are there is to handle loader(8)less
booting...

So watch that space, and apologies for not having done enough homework before
committing in the first place :*/

-- 
Brian <brian_at_Awfulhak.org>                        <brian_at_[uk.]FreeBSD.org>
      <http://www.Awfulhak.org>                   <brian_at_[uk.]OpenBSD.org>
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Received on Thu Jul 08 2004 - 20:31:52 UTC

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