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authorStefan <stefan-guix@vodafonemail.de>2020-04-26 21:21:38 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2020-05-02 16:49:30 +0200
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linux-boot: Allow the root file system to be mounted via NFS.
* gnu/build/linux-boot.scm (boot-system) Treat a root option with ":/" as an nfs source and avoid to call 'canonicalize-device-spec' for it. Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
-rw-r--r--gnu/build/linux-boot.scm11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
index 4fb711b8f2..05e833c0c6 100644
--- a/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
+++ b/gnu/build/linux-boot.scm
@@ -534,10 +534,13 @@ upon error."
;; The "--root=SPEC" kernel command-line option always provides a
;; string, but the string can represent a device, a UUID, or a
;; label. So check for all three.
- (let ((root (cond ((string-prefix? "/" root) root)
- ((uuid root) => identity)
- (else (file-system-label root)))))
- (mount-root-file-system (canonicalize-device-spec root)
+ (let ((device-spec (cond ((string-prefix? "/" root) root)
+ ((uuid root) => identity)
+ ((string-contains root ":/") #f) ; nfs
+ (else (file-system-label root)))))
+ (mount-root-file-system (if device-spec
+ (canonicalize-device-spec device-spec)
+ root)
root-fs-type
#:volatile-root? volatile-root?
#:flags root-fs-flags