Dual NIC = hang

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 12:38:16AM +0100, Roel van der Made wrote:
> 
> On 2/7/09 12:14 AM, "Robin Lee Powell" <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:59:26PM -0500, Ryan Steele wrote:
> >> There have been quite a few threads on this, and it seems to be a
> >> common  sticking point.  The workaround I used involved editing
> >> the initrd and  editing some of the scripts and arguments to the
> >> embedded ipconfig  binary which makes the request to the DHCP
> >> server.  The thread  describing my fix starts here:
> >> 
> >> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-fai@uni-koeln.de/msg01553.html
> > 
> > Given the level of difficulty involved in cracking open an initrd
> > (not that it's *hard*, just tedious and way more than just altering
> > a config file or a script) is this going to be rolled into FAI
> > proper at some point?
> 
> I tend to have this work-around'ed by always have the server pxe-boot from
> the first NIC (these are Dell 1950's, 2950's, MX1000 blades etc.) AND use a
> >= 2.6.24 kernel for FAI nfsroot install. This works fine for me, we have
> Dell deliver our servers with the bios pre-configured like this.

We already *have* the hundreds of servers, and they're not
configured like that.

Regardless, a workaround is one thing, but FAI itself should be able
to time out on a not-live NIC.

-Robin


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