Commit d362c5c6 authored by Maarten de Waard's avatar Maarten de Waard 👼
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point to nfsroot documentation and explain ip parameter

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## VPS setup

Some variables need to be passed to the initrd with kernel options. They are
retrieved from `/proc/cmdline`.
retrieved from `/proc/cmdline`. [Here's the official
documentation.](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt)

- `root=/dev/mapper/xvda1_crypt`: The partition that needs to be mounted as root
- `cryptroot=/dev/xvda`: The device that needs to be partitioned and encrypted
- `ip=213.108.110.71::213.108.110.126:255.255.255.128:encrypted-system:eth0:off`
  IP information (
  `<ip>:<??>:<gateway>:<subnet mask>:<hostname>:<network interface>:<???>`)
  IP information:
  `ip=<client-ip>:<server-ip>:<gw-ip>:<netmask>:<hostname>:<device>:<autoconf>:<dns0-ip>:<dns1-ip>`

### Startup Notification