netboot from NFS in an UEFI environment

[Rebecca Cran]

On 3/20/19 11:21 AM, Lucian Carata wrote:

> Looking through the source code (stand/efi/loader/main.c) I see that there is an attempt to list devices, with a comment saying "this handle list is only for netboot" -- which shows that at least netbooting on UEFI has been considered, but I'm not sure how to pass the path of the NFS root so that the boot continues.
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> Any ideas on how to do this (or something equivalent) would be greatly appreciated.


stand/efi/conf.c does have nfs_fsops, so it should be supported. Maybe 
an obvious question, but have you tried setting the DHCP option 
'root-path' ?


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Rebecca Cran