This bug was fixed in the package initramfs-tools - 0.92bubuntu14
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initramfs-tools (0.92bubuntu14) intrepid; urgency=low
* scripts/functions: Call ipconfig with a one-minute timeout rather than
waiting forever (LP: #182940).
-- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed, 01 Oct
It looks to me as if ip=eth1 should do it too?
case ${IPOPTS} in
none|off)
# Do nothing
;;
|on|any)
# Bring up device
ipconfig ${DEVICE}
;;
dhcp|bootp|rarp|both)
** Changed in: initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) = Colin Watson (kamion)
Status: New = Fix Committed
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network NFS DHCP boot fails on multiple NIC machine
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182940
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-t 7 is too short for my setup. -t 60 should be safe.
I was able to netboot the Hardy livecd (which detects my interfaces such
that eth1 is the one with the cable plugged in to it). (It does
boot=casper, not boot=nfs, so it doesn't normally look at ip= at all.)
I booted with break=mount, and
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network NFS DHCP boot fails on multiple NIC machine
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/182940
Passing the option ip=all to kernel at boot causes /usr/share
/initramfs-tools/scripts/nfs to pass the argument all to ipconfig,
with the following result:
IP-Config:eth0 hardware addresss 00:01:02:03:04:05 mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
[29.123456] eth0: no link durring initialization
IP-Config:eth1
