Dual NIC = hang

[Robin Lee Powell]

Yeah, I followed exactly those steps and it made no difference; it
ran the same live-initramfs script and had the same kernel panic.

-Robin

On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 08:19:57PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> That seems strange to me, since initramfs-tools isn't where the
> problem script lives; the problem script comes from live-initramfs
> 
> -Robin
> 
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 10:51:24PM -0500, Choate, Jon wrote:
> > We were able to solve this by downloading the initramfs-tools-92m deb,
> > chrooting into the nfs root, installing it, running update-initramfs,
> > exiting and then copying the initrd file created in
> > /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/boot to /srv/tftp/fai/. This
> > version of the tools uses the much more sensible configure_networking
> > function rather than directly calling ipconfig.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de
> > [mailto:linux-fai-bounces at uni-koeln.de] On Behalf Of Robin Lee Powell
> > Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2009 10:11 PM
> > To: linux-fai at uni-koeln.de
> > Subject: Re: Dual NIC = hang
> > 
> > On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
> > > > 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!
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > As far as I can tell, it's really not a problem of FAI, but an
> > > issue in initramfs. I thus doubt that "it will make it into FAI
> > > mainline".
> > 
> > After a stupendous amount of research, I've figured out what you
> > meant.  :)  Sorry about that.  I'm coming into this not
> > understanding FAI internal at all.
> > 
> > The problem appears to be with
> > /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live inside of the live-initramfs
> > package, which calls ipconfig without a -t option.
> > 
> > I tried to make a workaround, but it fails badly:
> > 
> >     Running: ipconfig -t 10 eth0
> >     IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:e0:81:45:ed:8a mtu 1500 DHCP
> > RARP
> >     [   25.776115] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
> > 
> > What it was actually running:
> > 
> >     echo "Running: ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE}"
> >     ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} || echo "ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} failed" |
> > tee /netboot.config
> > 
> > I don't understand how that caused a kernel panic, and I don't know
> > enough of the internals to have a reasonable chance of figuring it
> > out in a reasonable amount of time; suggestions welcome.
> > 
> > -Robin
> > 
> > -- 
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> -- 
> 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/