mounting root from NFS via ROOTDEVNAME

[Eggert, Lars]

Hi,

On Jan 29, 2013, at 9:34, Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc at crodrigues.org> wrote:
> I recommend that you do not use ROOTDEVNAME, and instead
> you should follow the instructions which I wrote and contributed to the
> FreeBSD handbook:
> 
> "PXE Booting with an NFS Root File System"
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-pxe-nfs.html
> 
> The content of this document is the same as the text file which Rick
> Macklem pointed out (I wrote that too).

I had read both before, and they're very useful documents. Unfortunately, they don't fully apply to my case, since I'm not PXE-booting the system; it netboots the kernel from a custom loader. So once the kernel bootstraps, I need it to obtain an IP address and then NFS-mount root.

> 
> BTW, if you ever visit the Netapp campus in Sunnyvale, California, feel
> free to say hello,
> because I work around the corner from there. :)
> --
> Craig Rodrigues
> rodrigc at crodrigues.org