Set default pxeboot vfs.root.mountfrom to nfs?

Sean Bruno seanbru at yahoo-inc.com
Thu Jul 1 17:49:13 UTC 2010


On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 15:07 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Hi Hackers,
>     I realize this is a trivial patch, but it's a minor item that I
> found kind of fascinating (and not thoroughly documented elsewhere
> because many examples are booting mfsroots instead of directly booting
> off nfs roots), but I'm proposing that pxeboot default to
> vfs.root.mountfrom="nfs" to reduce the need for special case
> loader.conf files just for pxe booting (and thus, enable
> out-of-the-box netbooting ^o^!!!).
>     Thoughts?
> Thanks!
> -Garrett

I'll just give this a +1 and move on. 

sean




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