[Differential] D10603: distinguish NFS versus TFTP boot by rootpath

Wed May 17 22:04:13 UTC 2017

tsoome added a comment.

  In https://reviews.freebsd.org/D10603#223350, @bapt wrote:

  > What I mean is we cannot use the one I listed above because they are interpreted by ipxe. For example if one netboots from qemu it will use ipxe under the hood first, then if you pass rootpath tftp:/ ipxe will say
  >
  >   Next server: 192.168.42.1
  >   Filename: /pxeboot
  >   Root path: tftp:/
  >   Could not open SAN device: Invalid argument (http://ipxe.org/1c126002)
  >   No more network devices
  >
  >
  > and the boot process fails.
  >
  > Which is why what I propose is tftpfs:/ because it is not used by ipxe
  >  and by default we remain on over nfs so we don't break existing usage

  So that sucks even more actually... it means I can not implement http: in loader with ipxe... I do not know. it really feels like just drop the whole idea about avoiding that extra request, build properly specified request, issue it and interpret the data received. just as it is supposed to be done.

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Cc: rgrimes