Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-12-29 Diskussionsfäden Michael Prokop
* Thomas Neumann [20091122 15:45]: > > * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > > (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge > > Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 > [...] > > I think about adding a newer live-initramfs package to the

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Moins, just for clarification: "network NFS DHCP boot fails on multiple NIC machine" https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/initramfs-tools/+bug/182940 "initramfs-tools: Network configuration can't work with multiple interfaces" http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=467078 Regar

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Steffen Grunewald
On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 03:22:30PM +0100, Michael Goetze wrote: > Toomas Tamm wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > > >> * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > >> (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed b

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Michael Goetze
Toomas Tamm wrote: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > >> * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting >> (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge >> Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 > > Does anyone know/rem

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Toomas Tamm
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge > Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 Does anyone know/remember, why the problem cannot

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Frédéric Boiteux
Le Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:11:25 +0100, Thomas Lange a écrit : > > On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux > > said: > > > has a cable plugged, to run ipconfig on this one. I can give it > > if someone is interested? > Yes, please post it here on this list, and alo give

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux > said: > has a cable plugged, to run ipconfig on this one. I can give it if > someone is interested? Yes, please post it here on this list, and alo give it to the live-initramfs (the project is called debian live) guys. --

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Frédéric Boiteux
Le Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:38:16 +0100, Thomas Lange a écrit : > In the past, several people had problems booting a host with multiple > network cards. IIRC Dell hardware often had this problem. > In newer versions of live-initramfs a new bootoption is available. > > * bootoption ethdevice: use spec

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-23 Diskussionsfäden Stephan Hermann
Good Morning, On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:38:16 +0100 Thomas Lange wrote: > In the past, several people had problems booting a host with multiple > network cards. IIRC Dell hardware often had this problem. > In newer versions of live-initramfs a new bootoption is available. > > * bootoption ethdevi

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya >> Currently interface are assigned as follows: [...] >> Who knows how long this is going to stay this way? Next kernelrelease? >> Next hardware revision? > Forever? ... or possibly just until I decide to put in a new network card, shuffling around the order of enumeration during the next i

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Michael Tautschnig
> Sorry for the self-followup, I forgot something > > > I don't care which interface is configured, as long as a usable interface > > is configured. (If there's no dhcp on this network then it's not "usable" > > - at least for mounting the nfs shares.) > > I have servers with up to 8 network inte

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 03:33:37PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > > On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:21:07 +0100, Henning Glawe > > said: > > I think that there would be still the problem of interface > names/enumeration > > of the network devices. Is there any way to detect which interface

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
Sorry for the self-followup, I forgot something > I don't care which interface is configured, as long as a usable interface > is configured. (If there's no dhcp on this network then it's not "usable" > - at least for mounting the nfs shares.) I have servers with up to 8 network interfaces (2 quad

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya > The kernel itself does not know anything about were it was loaded > from. It even does not know if it was loaded from network or disk or > whatever device. Could this be of any use? At least it doesn't work out of the box. I was hoping that the kernel detects that the / a interface is stil

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Neumann
hiya > * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge > Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 [...] > I think about adding a newer live-initramfs package to the FAI > repository, so you will automatical

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
> On Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:21:07 +0100, Henning Glawe > said: > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: >> * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting >> (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge >

Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Henning Glawe
On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 01:38:16PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote: > * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting > (PXE) instead of default (being eth0). Feature contributed by Helge > Wagner. Usage example: ethdevice=eth1 I think that there would be still the problem of in

booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-11-22 Diskussionsfäden Thomas Lange
In the past, several people had problems booting a host with multiple network cards. IIRC Dell hardware often had this problem. In newer versions of live-initramfs a new bootoption is available. * bootoption ethdevice: use specified network device for network booting (PXE) instead of default (bein