Re: tg3 network cards [SOLVED]
Ryan Steele wrote:
[...]
And I forgot to mention also, that I have to use a custom script to
rewrite the IP in the boot.log, otherwise at the end of the
installation, fai-chboot fails to connect to the server and change the
pxelinux.cfg file to foo.disable. Here is that script:
#! /bin/bash
error=0 ; trap error=$((error|1)) ERR
set -x
REALIP=$(echo `host $(cat $target/etc/hostname) | awk '{print $4}'`)
perl -i -pe s/^IPADDR=all(.*)/IPADDR='$REALIP'$3/ $LOGDIR/boot.log
exit $error
Hi Ryan,
this script is probably not needed, if you fix
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509090
Bye, Ralf
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Re: tg3 network cards [SOLVED]
Ralf Utermann wrote:
Ryan Steele wrote:
[...]
And I forgot to mention also, that I have to use a custom script to
rewrite the IP in the boot.log, otherwise at the end of the
installation, fai-chboot fails to connect to the server and change the
pxelinux.cfg file to foo.disable. Here is that script:
#! /bin/bash
error=0 ; trap error=$((error|1)) ERR
set -x
REALIP=$(echo `host $(cat $target/etc/hostname) | awk '{print $4}'`)
perl -i -pe s/^IPADDR=all(.*)/IPADDR='$REALIP'$3/ $LOGDIR/boot.log
exit $error
Hi Ryan,
this script is probably not needed, if you fix
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=509090
Bye, Ralf
Cool, thanks for the patch Ralf, I'll be testing it out.
Happy Holidays,
Ryan
Re: tg3 network cards [SOLVED]
Ryan Steele wrote: [...] Ah, I (think I) forgot to tell you that I had to put 'ip=all' in the pxelinux.cfg, otherwise you either hang or get kernel panics. Basically, when we PXE boot with the pxelinux.cfg file set up by fai-chboot using ip=dhcp, we end up using the /scripts/live shell script, which uses the 'ipconfig' binary. But, we need to tell ipconfig to time out for an interface for which it can't find a DHCP server, which is what configure_networking does using 'ipconfig -t'. I'm not the configure_networking, which my lenny/fai3.2.14 puts into the generated initrd has no -t in any ipconfig call. Well, what's stopping you from adding it? :) [...] Hi Ryan, nothing had been stopping me, I had already tested with various timeouts. The big winner is of course the combination of timeout and the 'ip=all' in the kernel command line, which I never tested together:( Sigh. So now it does work. Thanks for your input! I'm not sure who else is still reading our quite lengthy tg3 thread, maybe we should post a résumé with a subject like 'multiple network interfaces' ... An another point: for the first tests I manually changed the initrd, but for going in production I prefer make-fai-nfsroot just coming back with the initrd I need. Maybe I don't see it, does FAI provide a standard means for this? I added some lines to the copy_fai_files() function, to put a hook script in the nfsroot's initramfs-tools, patch files into the nfsroot and added 'patch' to /etc/fai/NFSROOT Bye, Ralf -- Ralf Utermann _ Universität Augsburg, Institut für Physik -- EDV-Betreuer Universitätsstr.1 D-86135 Augsburg Phone: +49-821-598-3231 SMTP: ralf.uterm...@physik.uni-augsburg.de Fax: -3411
Re: tg3 network cards [SOLVED]
On Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:34:09 +0100, Ralf Utermann ralf.uterm...@physik.uni-augsburg.de said: An another point: for the first tests I manually changed the initrd, but for going in production I prefer make-fai-nfsroot just coming back with the initrd I need. Maybe I don't see it, does FAI provide a standard means for this? No, make-fai-nfsroot can only reinstall the kernels inside the nfsroot (options -k and -K). This may not what you need. You can also chroot into the nfsroot and call dpkg-reconfigure linux-image- This will rebuild the initrd. -- regards Thomas
