Victor Lowther wrote:
root=dhcp is a kernel cmdline given by the bootloader (syslinux, grub, pxelinux, etc.) which directs the initrd during runtime to bring up eth0 and do DHCP. It then mounts the rootfs depending on options given by the DHCP server. Fedora 10 mkinitrd implements the following two types of mounts with root=dhcp.

         option root-path "172.31.100.254:/path/to/target_root";
         option root-path "nbd:172.31.100.254:2000:squashfs:ro";

Interesting -- I have been working on implementing code to detect and
configure network interfaces according to the netboot.txt kernel
document. The code I have written so far is browseable at
http://git.fnordovax.org/dracut/log/?h=network-configurability
(and it even works some of the time), and I would appreciate input from
someone who actually uses that functionality on a daily basis.

What is "netboot.txt document"?  Where is it from?

Warren Togami
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