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Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2003 14:55:02 +0300 (EEST)
From: Jari Kirma <kirma@cs.hut.fi>
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Subject: Make kernel.GENERIC suitable for diskless use with etherboot
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>Number:         55802
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [request] Make kernel.GENERIC suitable for diskless use with etherboot
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          suspended
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 20 05:00:28 PDT 2003
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 28 08:59:51 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Jari Kirma
>Release:        FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Helsinki University of Technology
>Environment:
>Description:
	GENERIC kernel lacks suitable options for being used with etherboot
	(loading kernel image directly, without a boot loader such as pxeboot
	that could supply kernel parameters such as root disk name).
	This is basically BOOTP options. I'm not certain how BOOTP options
	work, but obviously, such a version of GENERIC would require variant
	that uses BOOTP (or DHCP) to acquire required data only if it is
	not already set by a boot loader.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
	Add sufficient kernel options to the configuration file after checking
	they don't override any defaults set earlier in the boot process.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Mon Jan 28 08:59:40 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Mark suspended awaiting patches. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=55802 
>Unformatted:
