Thanks a lot, Patrick and Henning. Sweet. I guess that should work for us, I ll talk to the IT guys and come back in case we get stuck again.
Thanks again, Karthik On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Patrick Cervicek < [email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Karthik Kambatla wrote: > > I assume ip=dhcp suggests acquiring an IP address from the existing DHCP >> server. However, the machines are already assigned static IPs and the DHCP >> server doesn't assign any. Wouldn't that be a problem. >> > > According to /usr/src/linux/Documentation/**filesystems/nfsroot.txt the > syntax is: ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<**gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<** > device>:<autoconf> > > instead of ip=dhcp you could try with ip=192.168.1.100 > (You should talk to your IT department before using any IPs to avoid > collisions) > > But you can try ip=dhcp. Some IT department also maintain a dhcp pool with > static IPs wich corresponden to the MAC adresses of your static machines. >
