Subject: Re: NetBSD and BOOTP
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/10/2003 17:05:12
Victor Sudakov <sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru> wrote:

>>        subclass "allocation-class-2" 1:08:00:2b:a1:11:31 {
>>          option root-path "samsara:/var/diskless/alphapc";
>>          filename "/tftpboot/netbsd.alphapc-diskless";
>>        }
> 
> Yes, option root-path is indeed option 17.
> Unfortunately ofwboot.net does not parse the option string as you expect.

My reading of sys/lib/libsa/bootp.c is that 'rootip' is inite from
option 16 (swap-server, doh!) if supplied.  root path (options 17)
should be just the pathname.

SY, Uwe
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