Subject: misc/29858: diskless(8) man page is wrong about 'option swap-server'
To: None <misc-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <carton@Ivy.NET>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 04/01/2005 17:46:00
>Number: 29858
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: diskless(8) man page is wrong about 'option swap-server'
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: misc-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 01 17:46:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Miles Nordin
>Release: NetBSD 2.0_RC5
>Organization:
Ivy Ministries
>Environment:
System: NetBSD castrovalva 2.0_RC5 NetBSD 2.0_RC5 (CASTROVALVA-$Revision: 1.8 $) #2: Tue Feb 15 19:00:10 EST 2005 carton@castrovalva:/scratch/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/CASTROVALVA alpha
Machine: macppc
>Description:
the diskless man page says the dhcp 'next-server' option is used for finding
the root filesystem NFS server. I believe NetBSD will fall back to this
config, but it will prefer to use the 'option swap-server' as the NFS
root filesystem server if that option is set.
I've verified on macppc I can use two different machines for TFTP and NFS
server by setting the DHCP options this way. Both the second-stage
bootloader and the kernel will obey 'option swap-server'.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
Index: share/man/man8/diskless.8
===================================================================
RCS file: /scratch/cvsroot/netbsd/src/share/man/man8/diskless.8,v
retrieving revision 1.1.1.5
diff -u -r1.1.1.5 diskless.8
--- share/man/man8/diskless.8 12 Dec 2003 11:30:07 -0000 1.1.1.5
+++ share/man/man8/diskless.8 1 Apr 2005 17:39:23 -0000
@@ -511,8 +511,8 @@
hardware ethernet 8:0:20:7:c5:c7;
fixed-address myclient; # client's assigned IP address
filename "myclient.netboot"; # secondary bootstrap
- next-server myserver; # NFS server
- option swap-server myserver;
+ next-server myserver; # TFTP server for secondary bootstrap
+ option swap-server myserver; # NFS server for root filesystem
option root-path "/export/myclient/root";
}
.Ed