NFS/dhcp/tftp on eth1, kernel search NFS it on eth0

Jean Spirat jeanspirat at squirk.org
Sun Oct 5 12:17:43 CEST 2008


Jean Spirat a écrit :
> Hello,
>
>  All my tests works well but i have a failure when i try to install a 
> host with two ethernet cards. The dhcp and tftp runs on the eth1 
> network and it works fine. But the issue is that the fai kernel when 
> loaded bring not eth1 but eth0.
>
>  So it can never connect to the nfs server.i tried to add 
> ether=0,0,eth1 to the pxe config but this does not work as it seems 
> the tg3 modules is not in kernel but comes from the initramfs. I do 
> not see how i can change anything in the fai kernel or initd to make 
> this works. Anyone know how to deal with this problem or know if i do 
> something wrong ?
>
> regards,
> Jean.
to add a little more explanation:


- host boot ok
- pxe boot get the ip from the dhcp
- tftp load the kernel ok
- kernel fail to get the NFS server as it brings only eth0 up

Regards,
Jean.




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