Hi.
For starters, I have a DHCP server which is working fine when serving ltsp
clients (all these 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 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 booting 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. Different network configurations...
Is eth0 being assigned to one specific NIC card and then when the OS kicks in,
a different NIC gets assigned eth0?
I have read online the following...
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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.
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Are there any configuration setting that I can make to try and solve this
problem?
Any help with this would be much appreciated.
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