root=nfs no longer works in 2.4.22
Was root=nfs removed on purpose or is it an unexpected side effect of the "ROOT NFS fixes" patch from late July 2003?
I understand this patch from the point of wanting to eliminate nfs attempts when nfs is not requested. That is clearly a reasonable thing to do. However, "root=nfs" is a nfs request that has been accepted in the past, I've been told, because nfs isn't a real device (but maybe it was accepted as bug and this patch fixed it).
Quoted 4 lines · Michael Pruznick
Was root=nfs removed on purpose or is it an unexpected side effect of the "ROOT NFS fixes" patch from late July 2003?
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I understand this patch from the point of wanting to eliminate nfs attempts when nfs is not requested. That is clearly a reasonable thing to do. However, "root=nfs" is a nfs request that has been accepted in the past, I've been told, because nfs isn't a real device (but maybe it was accepted as bug and this patch fixed it).
So something like this doesn't work?
root=/dev/nfs ip=::::::dhcp nfsroot=10.10.1.1:/nfsroot
I know that this was work in rc2.
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Quoted 3 lines · Michael Pruznick
Was root=nfs removed on purpose or is it an unexpected side effect of the "ROOT NFS fixes" patch from late July 2003?
not unexpected ...
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I understand this patch from the point of wanting to eliminate nfs attempts when nfs is not requested. That is clearly a reasonable thing to do. However, "root=nfs" is a nfs request that has been accepted in the past, I've been told, because nfs isn't a real device (but maybe it was accepted as bug and this patch fixed it).
simple, there was a discrepancy between the 'device' table scanned on boot, and the actual device names root=/dev/nfs is correct, where root=wossname worked because it wasn't checked against anything ...
root=/dev/nfs will work for you, otherwise it is a bug, and we'll have to fix it ...
HTH,
Herbert