[ipxe-devel] Implicit SAN+PXE?

Michael Brown mbrown at fensystems.co.uk
Thu Nov 11 23:51:34 UTC 2010


On Thursday 11 Nov 2010 22:27:03 jarrod.b.johnson at gmail.com wrote:
> I do, will post tomorrow for review.  It is conservative and may be
>  better done through refactoring boot_root_path in half...
> 
> One objection I could see.  IIRC, freebsd is a case where the pxe
>  payload will interpret root_path for nfs root and ipxe trying to interpret
>  could be odd..

I'm assuming that we should handle an existent but incomprehensible root-path 
(e.g. an NFS root-path) by noisily failing to hook the SAN device and then 
continuing with the normal filename boot.

Michael



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