NFSOPTS is separated by a "," and not a ":" as documented.
Also make it clear that not all options from nfs(5) may be supported. For instance, "nfsvers=" is not supported by nfsmount and causes the initrd to loop forever. Signed-off-by: Baptiste Jonglez <[email protected]> --- initramfs-tools.8 | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/initramfs-tools.8 b/initramfs-tools.8 index 0eee050..223e934 100644 --- a/initramfs-tools.8 +++ b/initramfs-tools.8 @@ -44,9 +44,12 @@ set the file system mount option string. .TP \fB\fI nfsroot can be either "auto" to try to get the relevant information from DHCP or a -string of the form NFSSERVER:NFSPATH or NFSSERVER:NFSPATH:NFSOPTS. -Use root=/dev/nfs for NFS to kick to in. NFSOPTS can be looked up in -\fInfs(5)\fP. +string of the form NFSSERVER:NFSPATH or NFSSERVER:NFSPATH,NFSOPTS. +Use root=/dev/nfs for NFS to kick to in. NFSOPTS is a comma-separated list +of options. Available options can be looked up in +\fInfs(5)\fP +but some of the options documented there may not be supported by +\fInfsmount\fP. .TP \fB\fI ip -- 2.11.0
