Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:14:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: John Hay <jhay@icomtek.csir.co.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation Message-ID: <200011042014.eA4KELF11838@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:47:59 %2B0200." <200011041948.eA4Jm0R70463@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za>
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> Yes, you are right. Putting the ip number in the root-path cures the
> pxeboot failure. But is still only configure the NFS ROOT according
> to the kernel's output. I had a look at the pxe code in
> /sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c where pxeboot is built from and in
> /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c which is the kernel side and it looks like
> they don't do anything about swap. There is a /* XXX set up swap? */
> placeholder though. :-)
This is correct; basically I don't think the bootstrap has any business
setting up swap. swapon needs to learn how to configure NFS swap (or you
should use a swapfile).
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