Troy Benjegerdes wrote: > On Thu, Mar 31, 2005 at 06:06:30PM -0500, Hal Rosenstock wrote: > >>On Wed, 2005-03-30 at 20:04, Josh England wrote: >> >>>Are there any plans to modify the linux DHCP client so it would be >>>possible to do kernel-level DHCP and NFSroot over IB? >> >>I took a quick look at this and it looks pretty straightforward. Stay >>tuned... > > > I'd say don't. > > Using initrd/initramfs is a much better solution. At some point the > in-kernel dhcp is going to get so buggy and old it's going to get > removed.
I know...it's just crummy to have ship another 1.3 Megs out to every node. > I boot all my cluster systems with NFS root servers, and I'm trying to > get everything moved to using Debian packaged kernels with initrd's. > With an initrd, you at least have a chance to get a shell and figure out > why you couldn't find your nfs server, instead of "kernel panic, I'm > going to die now" you get with in-kernel dhcp/nfs. Check out oneSIS (http://onesis.org). It can build initrds for you that do NFSroot (and drop to a shell when things go sour). I'd love to hear some feedback from people familiar with running NFSroot. -JE _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
