Dual NIC = hang

[Ryan Steele]

Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> 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
>
>   
Really, try the thread I linked in my last response to this thread.  Are 
you sure you're sourcing each output file generated by ipconfig?  
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2008-December/006457.html

HTH,
Ryan