06-04-2010
The configuration in the nfsroot only matters once you already have network. If it's never connecting to NFS, this is happening before it. I wonder if the kernel has kernel-level autoconfiguration done -- meaning it will attempt to get DHCP by itself. Or if IP-Config is a proprietary ubuntu program, you will need to ask them.
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