On Wednesday 16 April 2008 05:55:32 am John Summerfield wrote: > Jarod Wilson wrote: > > Doesn't help you in the least right now, but note that the idea has been > > tossed around in Fedora kernel land about making basic usb-serial support > > built into the kernel in rawhide post-Fedora 9 release, the primary > > reason being so that one could do serial console output on a usb-serial > > adapter... > > This is a bit related, so I'll bring it up here, and maybe again on > Fedora test. > > I have a problem with 2.6.25 kernels on one of my systems, and so I've > been playing with ways to get stuff logged. The netconsole looks handy, > but I've not managed to get it to work. > > I don't want to assign an IP address in the kernel commandline, so it > has to get one. > > At present, it doesn't do this, so netconsole doesn't work. > > Just for the hell of it, I added "ip=dhcp" as one does for nfs-root. > > Then, netconsole failed. After that, the kernel used dhcp to get an IP > address. > > Now, if the kernel could get the IP address first, then netconsole would > work and I'd be able to log this problem without fiddling around with > serial cables and other computers.
At first blush, I'm assuming this falls down because there isn't a dhcp client built into the kernel. For nfs root, the dhcp client is actually in the initrd, and I'm guessing netconsole wants to start up even before the initrd has been unpacked. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list
