client hangs after eth0 becomes ready

[Thomas Lange]

>>>>> On Wed, 16 Nov 2011 16:01:21 +0100, Carsten Aulbert <carsten at welcomes-you.com> said:

    > I put 'set -x ' into the init function of the initrd to try to trace down if 
You do not need this. Just add the string debug to the kernel command
line, that will do the same trick.


The problem is, that the BOOTIF code is only used in the subroutine
configure_networking(), which is only called in scripts/nfs but not in
scritps/live. So I've tried to add this to scripts/live, and it seems
to work in my test case.

It may also be important to use IPAPPEND 2 not 3 on the kernel command
line, so only BOOTIF is set but not ip=. 


--- live.orig   2011-11-16 20:32:16.000000000 +0100
+++ /srv/fai/nfsroot/live/filesystem.dir/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live    2011-11-16 20:32:48.000000000 +0100
@@ -1707,6 +1707,8 @@
        . /scripts/live-functions
 
        Arguments
+configure_networking
+echo "DEVICE=$DEVICE" >> /conf/param.conf
 
        maybe_break live-premount
        log_begin_msg "Running /scripts/live-premount"


After patching the scripts/live script inside the nfsroot, you have to
rebuild the initrd (chroot into the nfsroot, rm initrd, then
update-initramfs -c -k all) and copy it to /srv/tftp/fai.

-- 
regards Thomas