From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <376E5D5F.EBEC6CD3@epfl.ch> Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 17:42:23 +0200 From: David Hoover MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: dhcp, linuxppc and remote /usr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hi, It is generally desirable for a machine to be able to do it's basic startup sequence even if /usr is not mounted yet (if for example it's on a remote NFS server). This is not the case with LinuxPPC when using DHCP to get network parameters. Briefly, DHCP booting does not work if /usr is mounted on a remote server. This is simply because /etc/rc.d/rc3.d/S10network uses the 'xargs' command (which is in /usr/bin instead of /bin). (if you are wondering why somebody would do this, the idea is to create a generic ZIP disk that can be used on any machine to start up a full LinuxPPC session. DHCP is used so that it's not necessary to hardwire net addresses onto the boot disk). I believe that either xargs should not be used in startup scripts, or xargs should be in /bin by default. After making this change, bootup proceeds perfectly). Just thought somebody might like to know this. I'm not on this list--so please reply to me personally if you have a comment. Dave. [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]