[...] > > >Actually one shouldn't need the additional nfsroot=..., if it is already > >provided by DHCP; however some versions of initramfs-tools seem to be > >buggy (and > >I don't know whether it got fixed already) and fail to parse the DHCP > >results. > > Right, I fail to get an installation started when not having nfsroot > set on kernelk command line. > So my orginal question, if/how this can be done with getting the > nfsroot location via dhcp seems not yet solved.... > In most situations it's enough to set it on the kernel command line, > but it's not 100% compatible to the strategy of putting these features > in the Kernel. >
I think the initramfs-tools bug related to these problems is http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=387808 - and it isn't fixed yet... I guess it's just some small bug in the scripts running in the busybox, but I haven't found the time to debug it. Best, Michael
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