problem setting NFSROOT

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:30:14 +0200, Thomas Lange <lange at informatik.uni-koeln.de> said:

>>>>> On Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:57:46 +0200, Huisman G <gert at few.vu.nl> said:
    >> We used to pass  NFSROOT=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:/path/to/nfsroot
    >> from the hex-ip-adress file in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/
    > Yep, that should also work, but maybe this data gets overwritten by
    > the DHCP information. 

    >> because the ROOTSERVER (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) is always set to
    >> the address of our DHCP server, which is not the same as the NFS server.
    > next-server in dhcpd.conf sets this variable (really, I just tries it
    > in my environment). But AFAIK this is also the address of the TFTP
    > server, from which your install clients tries to download the
    > pxelinux.0 file, so this is not really what you want.
There's also
  option tftp-server-name text;

See  man dhcp-options(5) for more information.
-- 
regards Thomas