Package: live-boot Severity: normal Tags: upstream X-Debbugs-Cc: kwestover...@gmail.com
Hello, All of my ethernet connections go through an old Cisco switch I have. It takes just over 30 seconds to assign an IP address, and this can cause problems with programs that completely fail if DHCP isn't quick enough. For example, I always have to retry network autoconfiguration in the Debian Installer because it gives up before the switch is done. I have PXE boot set up for easy netbooting of many different operating systems, and it works very well, except for the fact that I need to add boot parameters such as rd.net.timeout.dhcp=40 (dracut example) to give the switch more time to set up the network before failing to boot. I recently discovered the excellent work done here in the Debian Live images, and decided to add one to my PXE by booting its kernel and initrd with the fetch= boot parameter for the filesystem.squashfs. Upon attempting to boot it, everything worked fine until it tried to initialize the network, giving up after 15 seconds. I did a lot of research to see how I could increase the timeout, but couldn't find any useful information. It would be helpful if a boot parameter could be added that sets the length of time dhclient waits until giving up. Another solution would be one that sets a number of retries. Thanks, -- Ben Westover -- System Information: Debian Release: bookworm/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.17.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages live-boot depends on: pn live-boot-initramfs-tools | live-boot-backend <none> Versions of packages live-boot recommends: ii live-boot-doc 1:20220505 pn live-tools <none> ii rsync 3.2.4-1 pn uuid-runtime <none> Versions of packages live-boot suggests: ii cryptsetup 2:2.4.3-1 pn curlftpfs <none> pn httpfs2 <none> ii wget 1.21.3-1+b1
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