The development team has been talking, and a few people have expressed
some concerns with the boot build method. A lot of people think it
should be a fully functional system, with the ability to use the
network. Which everyone agree's needs to happen, but everyone has a
different idea. This is to propose the idea I think will benefit
everyone, will only 1 package added to the build.
My proposal is to add IP Kernel Autoconfiguration to the kernel build in
the boot build section. I have tested this numerous times with netboot
and boot style builds. The change would require a few items selected in
the kernel at build time. Also at least one network driver will also
need to be selected during the build along with these options.
Device Drivers --->
Networking support --->
Networking options --->
[*] IP: kernel level autoconfiguration
[*] IP: DHCP support
[*] IP: BOOTP support
[*] IP: RARP support
The second change would be the bootloader, for a DHCP based network,
ip=dhcp will need to be added to kernel line.
Grub would look like
cat > ${CLFS}/boot/grub/menu.lst << "EOF"
# Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst
# By default boot the first menu entry.
default 0
# Allow 30 seconds before booting the default.
timeout 30
# Use prettier colors.
color green/black light-green/black
# The first entry is for CLFS.
title CLFS SVN-20060911
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/clfskernel-2.6.17.13 root=/dev/hda4 ip=dhcp
EOF
For Static IP's, ip=parameters will need to be added to the kernel line
cat > ${CLFS}/boot/grub/menu.lst << "EOF"
# Begin /boot/grub/menu.lst
# By default boot the first menu entry.
default 0
# Allow 30 seconds before booting the default.
timeout 30
# Use prettier colors.
color green/black light-green/black
# The first entry is for CLFS.
title CLFS SVN-20060911
root (hd0,3)
kernel /boot/clfskernel-2.6.17.13 root=/dev/hda4
ip=192.168.1.1::192.168.1.254:255.255.255.0:clfs
EOF
The final change will be adding inetutils to the boot build order.
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