BOOTP problem with 2.4.x

[Carsten Aulbert]

Sorry, was bounced due to imminent mental problems on my side ;-)


  > Thomas Glanzmann wrote:

     >> Does somebody know if there is a way to tell the kernel while
     >> compiletime some default command line arguments?
     >>

 > Sorry no to that (or I don't think it's possible except fiddling
     > round with the sources quite heavily, i.e. hardcoding things).

     > Related to BOOTP/DHCP I (FAI newbie) have a problem:

     > With using 2.4.17 I succeeded in booting the kernel via PXE (via
     > DHCP), but I somehow cannot get the kernel to boot with
     > nfsaddrs=kernel (going into command line in
     > /tfptboot/pxelinux.cfg/default), I have to explicitly set all
     > the values into this line because the client broadcasts the
     > request on the net but doesn't react to the server reply; and
     > I've no idea where to look for the error.

     > This is particular annoying since the DHCP options then in turn
     > have to be hardwired into the scripts.

     > Any suggestions?

     > TIA

     > Carsten