On 2015-12-02 18:07:44 +0100, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > Also, reducing the severity to “important” from “grave”: if you're > booting a machine without network access, then I guess you have some way > to modify the kernel parameters; adding “ip=off” will do the trick.
Indeed, with ip=off added from the GRUB startup screen, the DHCP client is not started. > By the way, even without “ip=off”, note that configure_networking should > eventually bail out, as it runs ipconfig with the following timeouts > values: 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 16, 25, 36, 64, and 100 secs. Thanks for the information. I didn't wait that long. And this doesn't seem to be documented (unless one looks at /usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/functions -- I had to do a recursive grep to find in which file this was done --, one doesn't know). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
