On Fri, Mar 18, 2016 at 9:08 AM, Nikunj A Dadhania <nik...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> I wonder if anyone ever seen or used net_if_dhcp_server_name variable; >>>>>> because net_boot sets interface name to card:dhcp, this actually >>>>>> becomes net_card_dhcp_dhcp_server_name. Someone would sure have >>>>>> noticed it. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Please test attached patch. It sets net_<card>_dhcp_server_ip variable. >>>> >>>> We probably need to offer programmatic way to iterate through all cards >>>> in CLI. But as long as you have single card with known name it should be >>>> OK. >>> >>> So the variable net_ofnet_net_dhcp_server_ip is set now, although the >>> boot does not proceed and bails out. >>> >> >> There is misunderstanding. Of course you need to change your script to >> actually use this variable. It does not magically set default server. > > Yes, i was expecting that setting *device=tftp,server-ip might do the > trick. > > So I did following for picking up the server IP, and this works: > > set net_default_server=$net_ofnet_net_dhcp_server_ip > > As you had mentioned, can we have a programmatic way ? >
The above looks pretty much programmatic to me :) That's more a policy question - how do you determine which card/interface to use (remember, there could be any number of them). As you come here from disk boot, you could define card name in environment block as example. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
