Bug 230728

Summary:	sys-kernel/genkernel: booting over NFS - missing route support
Product:	Gentoo Hosted Projects	Reporter:	Tomas Zvala <fox>
Component:	genkernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	kyron, sping
Priority:	Low	Keywords:	InVCS
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Attachments:	Add support for default route and dns servers/domain

Description Tomas Zvala 2008-07-04 12:35:42 UTC

The idea is to put contents of LiveCD/DVD on a NFS and then use the nfs share instead of CD. Makes working gentoo livecd easier since you dont have to find cdrom drive and burn cds to install.
Gentoo even seems to have a support for this in initrd, but there is no support for default route. So if the NFS server is on different subnet I get destination unreachable. Can this be fixed please?

Comment 1 Eric Thibodeau 2008-07-07 18:20:26 UTC

The techniques I am developing for this year's SoC could actually be applied to build a "Gentoo Install Server" which could serve up stage4 images.

http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/clustering-livecd.git;a=tree

...or some morphing of this idea...

Comment 2 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-12 16:38:02 UTC

Shouldn't a DHCP server provide you with a proper default route?

Comment 3 Tomas Zvala 2008-07-13 16:17:53 UTC

DHCP does provide you a default route, but udhcpc.script is set to ignore that.

Comment 4 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-29 12:25:04 UTC

Do we even need the custom udhcpc.scripts? Won't udhcpd "Do The Right Thing" all by itself? Do we only have it for the purposes of creating /rootpath?

Comment 5 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-29 12:32:09 UTC

Created attachment 161616 [details, diff]
Add support for default route and dns servers/domain

I've just committed this patch in git. Please test and make sure it works for you.

Comment 6 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-07-29 12:33:59 UTC

I'm abusing the InSVN keyword, since InGIT doesn't exist :P

Comment 7 Sebastian Pipping gentoo-dev

2010-12-10 08:05:11 UTC

(In reply to comment #5)
> I've just committed this patch in git.

Due to the date of the last comment on this bug I assume that feature to be included in 3.4.10.907 or an earlier release of genkernel.

Closing, please re-open as needed.