Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 27 Oct 2008 23:04:19 +0100 | From | Matthias Schniedermeyer <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt: CONFIG_IP_PNP must be set |
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On 27.10.2008 22:41, Hartmut Niemann wrote: > The file nfsroot.txt fails to mention, that Kernel level autoconfiguration > CONFIG_IP_PNP must be selected in order to be able to even see > the option "Root file system on NFS" (CONFIG_ROOT_NFS) > > I reordered the section 1 of nfsroot.txt and emphasized the dependency. > (And I fixed some chapter numbering in section 3).
Technically you neither need autoconfiguration nor CONFIG_ROOT_NFS.
With an initrd/initramfs you can do the whole procedure from userspace.
And AFAIR a few years back those options where on the brink of beeing deprecated for just that reason.
Just my 2 cents.
Bis denn
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