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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell
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Linux Kernel in a Nutshell

by Greg Kroah-Hartman
December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
202 pages
8h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

nfsroot — Specifies the NFS root filesystem.

Synopsis

nfsroot=[server-ip :]root-dir[,nfs-options]

Set the NFS root filesystem for diskless boxes, to enable them to boot properly over NFS. If this parameter is not set, the value /tftpboot/ client_ip_address will be used as the root filesystem with the default NFS options.

server-ip

IP address of the NFS server to connect to.

root-dir

Directory on the NFS server to mount as root. If there is a %s token in this string, it will be replaced with the ASCII representation of the client's IP address.

nfs-options

The standard NFS options, such as ro, separated by commas.

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