Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 00:34:00 -0800 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@crodrigues.org> To: "Eggert, Lars" <lars@netapp.com> Cc: "freebsd-current@freebsd.org" <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME Message-ID: <CAG=rPVergKVKUO=VySvM65WPJO_Od1tkWvx45tM_sEyO65mwUg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <D4D47BCFFE5A004F95D707546AC0D7E91F671642@SACEXCMBX01-PRD.hq.netapp.com> References: <D4D47BCFFE5A004F95D707546AC0D7E91F671642@SACEXCMBX01-PRD.hq.netapp.com>
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Eggert, Lars <lars@netapp.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to netboot a system where the root device is specified in the > kernel via ROOTDEVNAME: > > Lars, I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the FreeBSD handbook: "PXE Booting with an NFS Root File System" http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html The content of this document is the same as the text file which Rick Macklem pointed out (I wrote that too). BTW, if you ever visit the Netapp campus in Sunnyvale, California, feel free to say hello, because I work around the corner from there. :) -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org
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