/tmp/nfs.rpc_pipefs_path can contain the path where
/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs will be moved before switch_root.
This is useful if /var is a separate partition in the real root.
--kernel-only
only install kernel drivers and firmware files
--no-kernel
do not install kernel drivers and firmware files
All kernel module related install commands moved from "install"
to "installkernel".
For "--kernel-only" all installkernel scripts of the specified
modules are used, regardless of any checks, so that all modules
which might be needed by any dracut generic image are in.
The basic idea is to create two images. One image with the kernel
modules and one without. So if the kernel changes, you only have
to replace one image.
Grub and the kernel can handle multiple images, so grub entry can
look like this:
title Fedora (2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586 ro rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-20090722.img
initrd /initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
initrd /initrd-config.img
initrd-20090722.img
the image provided by the initrd rpm
one old backup version is kept like with the kernel
initrd-kernel-2.6.29.5-191.fc11.i586.img
the image provided by the kernel rpm
initrd-config.img
optional image with local configuration files
TODO: /etc/passwd and /etc/group are not removed yet due to 90mdraid.
dledford said he'll go in and clean this up since he has the hardware
to actually test the mdmon stuff.
it solves the following case:
root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=server:/path
- the server could be reachable on any interface
- any interface can get an IP by dhcp
- only one IP is allowed to mount the root
Udev rules set a /dev/root symlink to the real root and add
a mount script to /mount/. This enables the proper use of pre-mount
scripts and prevents mount being killed by a udev timeout.
- Remove root=nfs nfsroot=...
- Remove root=nfs4 nfsroot=...
- Remove root=/dev/nfs4 nfsroot=...
- Legacy nfsroot= without root=/dev/nfs should be unsupported according to the nfsroot.txt.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txt
45 root=/dev/nfs
46
47 This is necessary to enable the pseudo-NFS-device. Note that it's not a
48 real device but just a synonym to tell the kernel to use NFS instead of
49 a real device.
As with other netroot boot arguments ip= lines should be parsed and
checked. Having this has the advantage that other cmdline scripts
can tell the ip= parser if dhcp or ip=:srv:... is needed, like
parse-root.sh (renamed dhcp-fallback) or parse-nfsroot do.
The nfs test-suite has one check which uses static ip lines, but
the autoconf param is wrong. Fixed this as well.
This introduces detailed cmdline parsing, warning or aborting if the
cmdline does not contain arguments according to the spec.
Makeing sure the parsers don't just call getarg for netroot et al,
allows their reuse inside netroot to analyse dhcp root-path as well.
Hence we can get rid of the current netroot hooks. The hook itself stays
in order to add further modules which should run before netroot handlers
are called.
This has one drawback: nfsroot needs some more logic to handle nfs
specific data inside dhcp root-path.
The parsers have been writting according to current discussions about
cmdline arguments. This lead to the "discovery" that some test-cases
violate the spec. These tests have not been removed, but change to
"must fail".
Multiline conditionals ( && { ... } ) should use if, function
declarations go to the top of the file, add/update comments and remove
some unnecessary clutter.
This is probably not necessary, but paranoia dictates that the actual
netroot handlers should check if all three required arguments (netif,
root, NEWROOT) are there and useable.
rpc.statd is only needed for NFSv4, because it's required for
locking. We don't support locking for NFSv2/3, so start it only
if we are mount from NFSv4.
This patch enhances nfsroot and the nfs test-suite with compatibility
for debian based distros. This is mainly the difference of using
portmap instead of rpcbind and the missing file /etc/netconfig
This adds support for a command line option netroot=, which is currently
equivalent to root=. This will allow us to break out handling in NBD and
iSCSI to support constructs such as "root=LABEL=/ netroot=dhcp" to make
use of our block device handling with network attached devices.
iSCSI has not been changed in this patch as I don't currently have a way
to test it.
This implements a default path of /tftpboot/%s if no path is provided,
and adds host name substitution for %s, with a fall back to the IP address,
as provided by the kernel's nfsroot handling.
The test suite is updated to test this functionality.
Probe for NFS and NBD capability before trying to load their modules
in case they are built into the kernel. Ugly use of flag files, but
avoids the need for grep to be on the image.
Parse and convert commandline options in the cmdline hook, and
fill in the missing pieces in the netroot hook. This also allows
root=dhcp to work as expected.
Harald Hoyer