kernel parameters

[Pierre Brua]

dschmitz at pp1.usuhs.mil wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone knew of any kernel parameters for network setup.
> I would like to define the IPs of my diskless nodes using kernel
> parameters

It is easy to avoid BOOTP/RARP, as explained in
/usr/src/linux/Documentation/nfsroot.txt :

#ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>
#  This parameter tells the kernel how to configure IP addresses of
devices
...

You can also configure it on a per-disk basis by using loadlin on a
msdos disk and an append parameter in the .bat script that launch
loadlin (but that's not a technically beautiful solution).

Pierre
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