Re: Problems using VendorTags in /etc/bootptab

[Jim McQuillan <jam@McQuil.com>]

James,

I think this was a bug in the kernel and I've heard that it works
correctly as 2.2.16.

Jim McQuillan
jam@ltsp.org

James Pearson wrote:
> 
> I've been booting diskless Linux boxes via etherboot/netboot/bootp
> successfully for some time. However, I've been experimenting with using
> Vendortags to pass arguments to the kernel.
> 
> This almost works fine, except that the loaded kernel wants to mount
> "/tftpboot/ip_address_of_diskless_client" as the root partition - i.e.
> it ignores the "rp=" tag in /etc/bootptab (the "rp=" tag works fine when
> not using the Vendortags).
> 
> I'm not using the most up to date versions of etherboot (v4.2) and
> bootpd (v2.4).
> 
> Would more recent versions of either/both these packages fix this
> problem? Or am I missing something?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> James Pearson
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