admin-guide/nfs/nfsroot.rst

2 Mounting the root filesystem via NFS (nfsroot)
22 Documentation/admin-guide/initrd.rst) or a filesystem mounted via NFS. The
23 following text describes on how to use NFS for the root filesystem. For the rest
24 of this text 'client' means the diskless system, and 'server' means the NFS
33 In order to use nfsroot, NFS client support needs to be selected as
54   This is necessary to enable the pseudo-NFS-device. Note that it's not a
55   real device but just a synonym to tell the kernel to use NFS instead of
63   <server-ip>	Specifies the IP address of the NFS server.
66 		servers for IP autoconfiguration and NFS.
73   <nfs-options>	Standard NFS options. All options are separated by commas.
92   NFS, so it was renamed to ip and the old name remained as an alias for
109   <server-ip>	IP address of the NFS server.
114 		Only required for NFS root. That is autoconfiguration
115 		will not be triggered if it is missing and NFS root is not
204 	bootserver <server-ip>			(NFS server IP)
218   that use an NFS root filesystem.
224   root filesystem if it is on NFS).
230   NFS mount options, server address, and root path are passed to the
231   NFS client.