Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2000 23:24:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith <msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Proposed small change to /usr/src/sys/boot/i386/loader/Makefile Message-ID: <200010270624.e9R6OQF00811@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 26 Oct 2000 22:59:54 PDT." <200010270559.e9R5xsZ85008@earth.backplane.com>
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No argument here. There are "better" solutions, but they're all more
work.
> I'd like to change this:
>
> # Enable PXE TFTP or NFS support, not both.
> #CFLAGS+= -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
> CFLAGS+= -DLOADER_NFS_SUPPORT
>
> To this:
>
> # Enable PXE TFTP or NFS support, not both.
> .if defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT)
> CFLAGS+= -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT
> .else
> CFLAGS+= -DLOADER_NFS_SUPPORT
> .endif
>
>
> This way I can force pxeboot to use TFTP rather then NFS simply by
> setting LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in my /etc/make.conf. The problem I
> am facing with the default pxeboot is that I can't seem to get it
> to work with a BOOTP kernel whos image is located somewhere other
> then the NFS root. That is, it tries to load NFSROOT:/kernel (which
> is the server's kernel, not the diskless client's kernel) when
> I really want it to load /tftpboot/kernel and then mount NFSROOT:/.
>
> The default is still to compile up the NFS version of pxeboot. This
> mod simply allows one to add a make.conf variable to get buildworld
> to compile the other version of pxeboot.
>
> Any objections to committing this for the 4.x release?
>
> -Matt
>
>
>
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