Problem during booting of install kernel

[Nikola Knežević]

On 20 Nov 2008, at 19:03 , Thomas Neumann wrote:

>> On my site, DHCP and TFTP/FAI are on two different servers. Also, in
>> pxelinux.cfg/ file, there is ip=dhcp line.
>>
>> Since the kernel parameters are: nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot, I assume
>> this is causing the problem?
>
> nfsroot=<faiserver ip>:/srv/fai/nfsroot
>
> IIRC you have to specify the faiserver's ip not his hostname,  
> because the
> initrd might not be able to correctly resolve the hostname.

Hi Thomas, thanks for the reply.

I tried this line:
append initrd=initrd.img-2.6.26-1-amd64 root=/dev/nfs  
nfsroot=128.178.149.130:/srv/fai/nfsroot boot=live   
FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,reboot FAI_ACTION=install

but it still fails.
What I managed to discover is that the system hangs at the call to:
/srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/usr/lib/klibc/bin/ipconfig

DHCP server replies, though:
Nov 20 19:16:25 nslrack03 dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:15:17:28:1b:92  
via eth0
Nov 20 19:16:25 nslrack03 dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 128.178.149.169 to  
00:15:17:28:1b:92 via eth0
Nov 20 19:16:33 nslrack03 dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 128.178.149.169 from  
00:15:17:28:1b:92 via eth0
Nov 20 19:16:33 nslrack03 dhcpd: DHCPACK on 128.178.149.169 to  
00:15:17:28:1b:92 via eth0

I will investigate this more, and let you know what is happening...

Cheers,
N.