bad interaction between fai and mkconf (mdadm)

[Rudy Gevaert]

On 11/22/2010 12:10 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 09:48:51 +0100, Rudy Gevaert<Rudy.Gevaert at ugent.be>  said:
>
>      >  mkconf uses the DEVICE variable.  During the fai install the DEVICE
>      >  variable is set!
> I found some code in live-initramfs_1.215.1-1grml.01_all.deb which
> sets $DEVICE in /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live.
> This is done if you set ethdevice= on the kernel command line (lines
> 106ff) and inside some code which states to be an ugly trick when
> ipconfig hangs (lines 864ff).
>
> Maybe this is the cause of your problem.

Thanks.  Indeed I have in my intramfs.conf
DEVICE=eth0

However I have ip=dhcp on my tftp config

Martin, shall I submit a bug on mdadm?

Rudy