Dual NIC = hang

[Robin Lee Powell]

Thank you for that, sincerely.

However, I keep asking whether any of these workarounds are going to
make it into FAI mainline, and people keep sending me more
workarounds, which is not what I was asking about!

-Robin

On Sat, Feb 07, 2009 at 06:03:08AM -0800, thomas timpo wrote:
> Robin,
> 
> One solution that we've used was to use the bleeding edge version
> of live-initramfs, which uses ipconfig binary properly. 
> Alternatively, you can go into the nfsroot and edit the
> do_netmount() function in the main live-initramfs script, then use
> update-initramfs, then copy the updated initrd to /srv/tftp/fai
> 
> Thomas
> --- On Sat, 2/7/09, Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org> wrote:
> 
> From: Robin Lee Powell <rlpowell at digitalkingdom.org>
> Subject: Re: Dual NIC = hang
> To: "Roel van der Made" <rvandermade at ebay.com>
> Cc: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 4:11 AM
> 
> 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
> 
> 
> -- 
> They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
> And I'm thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
> other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre
> http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
> 
> 
> 
>       
-- 
They say:  "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons."
And I'm thinking:  "Does it even occur to you to try for something
other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre
http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/