debugging initramfs boot process, install client can't mount root file system

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
If you have any troubles during the boot process of your install clients and they can't mount the nfsroot, you like to have a shell for debuging. You can get a shell by adding break=bottom as kernel parameter (in a pxelinux.cfg file). This stops the boot process and spaws a shell within the

Re: debugging initramfs boot process, install client can't mount root file system

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Ryan Steele
Thomas Lange wrote: If you have any troubles during the boot process of your install clients and they can't mount the nfsroot, you like to have a shell for debuging. You can get a shell by adding break=bottom as kernel parameter (in a pxelinux.cfg file). This stops the boot process and spaws a

tg3 network cards

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Ryan Steele
This may or may not be the proper list/outlet for this, so if it's not, feel free to let me know and I'll pursue it elsewhere, but since it came up during a FAI installation I'll start here. I've got a server with a Broadcom network card (a 5721) and I'm using the tg3 driver, and the box with

Re: tg3 network cards

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
This may or may not be the proper list/outlet for this, so if it's not, feel free to let me know and I'll pursue it elsewhere, but since it came up during a FAI installation I'll start here. I've got a server with a Broadcom network card (a 5721) and I'm using the tg3 driver, and the

Re: tg3 network cards

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Ryan Steele
Michael Tautschnig wrote: This may or may not be the proper list/outlet for this, so if it's not, feel free to let me know and I'll pursue it elsewhere, but since it came up during a FAI installation I'll start here. I've got a server with a Broadcom network card (a 5721) and I'm using

Re: tg3 network cards

2008-12-03 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
[...] ipconfig is part of the klibc-utils package and most likely just tries to get an answer from your DHCP server at that very moment. Ah, didn't know that's where it came from - thanks for the tip. Re: 'most likely tries...' - really? It doesn't just use the info supplied to the