Hi. For starters, I have a DHCP server which is working fine when serving ltsp clients (all my clients have the same hardware configuration). I’m using K12 Linux (FC10). My clients have two ‘on-board’ NIC cards, where one is connected to my DHCP server and the other NIC to some other network.
Now, the problem… I took one of the working clients (working means that it can boot up image from my dhcp and run fedora) and I added a third PCIe NIC card (fiber). Now when I boot this client I get the following error… Failed to read dhcp lease file. Mount: missing mount point This error occurs after PXE downloads kernel and initrd. Then FC10 starts to boot (the boot process is slower than normal [I’m guessing that the dhcp problem is here due to slowness] and when FC10 is done loading the “Failed to read dhcp lease file.” appears. If I remove that fiber card, the client boots fine. The thing is that I need to have that fiber card in-place. I have tried the following to no avail… 1. Have the fiber NIC not connected; 2. Put all three cards on the same network (I know, sounds silly, but for testing) 3. Tried a few other network connection schemes... My question, Is eth0 being assigned to one specific NIC card and then when the OS kicks in, a different NIC gets assigned eth0? So the Fiber gets eth0 after boot. If this is the case, can I disable PCI scan for add-on cards when the client boots, then activate it using scripts once the OS is loaded? Also, I have not built into the image the driver for that card. Would this help? I have read online the following... --------------------------- I haven't looked closely at the code, but I suspect this isn't really a mkinitrd bug. Rather it is the way that we use mkinitrd, which is rather simplistic and assumes that you have a single network card on a thin client. It *could* work if you have multiple cards, but you are at the mercy of the whims of your own hardware which device gets named eth0. I wouldn't bother filing a bug unless you can think of some ingenious solution that both simple and automatic, that would probably involve code changes in mkinitrd's nash library. ----------------------------- Are there any configuration setting that I can make to try and solve this problem? Any help with this would be much appreciated. Pat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social Business. http://p.sf.net/sfu/lotusphere-d2d _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
