From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
To: Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>
Cc: 43219@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#43219] [PATCH] gnu: Handle nfs-root device strings.
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2020 11:05:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200907110552.0bdef27e@scratchpost.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D0B1280-3FB5-48E5-B985-24773F966618@vodafonemail.de>
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Hi Stefan,
On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 13:26:25 +0200
Stefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de> wrote:
> * gnu/bootloader/grub.scm (grub-root-search): Suppor nfs-root device strings to
> set the root to tftp.
Why does having a NFS root "device" imply using TFTP?
I can see that it would be nice--but I've been using NFS for many years without
using TFTP.
> + ((? (lambda (device)
> + (and (string? device) (string-contains device ":/"))) nfs-uri)
> + "set root=(tftp)")
What is that required for in practice?
Pushed all the other hunks except for the one above--for now.
Guix master commit 1c3b709edb8e6248a9a84dde57b27f3fdc997f21.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-07 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2020-09-05 11:26 ` [bug#43219] [PATCH] gnu: Handle nfs-root device strings Stefan
2020-09-06 11:52 ` Stefan
2020-09-06 12:21 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-07 9:05 ` Danny Milosavljevic [this message]
2020-09-07 12:50 ` Stefan
2020-09-07 18:44 ` Stefan
2020-09-07 13:33 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-09-13 18:30 ` Stefan
2020-10-05 8:40 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-05 16:31 ` bug#43219: " Stefan
2020-09-07 9:32 ` [bug#43219] Fwd: " Stefan
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