fai 4.1 can't boot with multi ethernet box

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 02/07/2014 02:08 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 07 Feb 2014 13:56:15 +0100, Alex Mestiashvili <alex at biotec.tu-dresden.de> said:
>      > Just tried the new FAI 4.1 installed on a wheezy box.
>      > nfsroot has FAI4.1 packages installed.
>
>      > It seems that dracut fails to detect the correct interface on a multi
>      > ethernet server.
> See https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-March/010022.html
>  From man dracut.cmdline:
>
>     ip=<interface>:_{dhcp|on|any|dhcp6|auto6}_[:[<mtu>][:_<macaddr>_]]
>
> You can say: ip=eth1:dhcp
> or even specify the MAC address with dracut.

yes, worked like a charm!, I start to like dracut :)

>
>      > dracut: Mounted root filesystem 192.168.0.40:/srv/fai/nfsroot
>      > aufs 3.2.x
>      > warning can't open /etc/fstab: No such file or directory
>      > dracut: Switching root
>      > switch_root: failed to execute /sbin/init: Not a directory
>      > Kernel panic - not syncing ...
> This can also happen if it tires to do a NFS v4 mount. So, first check
> if you see a mount request on the FAI install server. If yes, you may
> have this NFSv4 problem. See these hints
>
> https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2013-January/009899.html
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=676883#10


That was it, after fixing nfs options on the server side all works as 
expected.

Thank you a lot,
Alex