Mats Mats Erik Andersson schrieb: > Hello KP and all hardware testers, > > I finally directed this to the devel-list, > in order to minimize the technical pollution > at the users-list. > > Sadly to say my problems with dhcpcd persists > when testing on two naked pc-wrecks with chipset > Via 586B. Neither "pci=assign-busses", nor "pci=bios" > are able to resolve the problem, which I am about > to repeat presently. A mainboard using Intel 370 > chipset is also incabable of starting ifup/dhcpcd. > On the other hand equivalent configuration steps > using the previous Bering-3.1-beta1 floppy image > IS working correctly. What happened to ifup/dhcpcd > in the transition "beta1 --> beta1"? I have honestly > no clue to the underlying cause of this. Could it > be that the floppy image is broken. At one instance > an earlier image exported from qemu exhibited a > persistent kernal panic between the sourcing of > iptables.lrp and dhcpcd.lrp. It might be that other > than me 88 people have used the beta2 floppy image, > but fact is, on identical hardware I can get 3.1-beta1 > up and running, but not a single time can I do the > same with 3.1-beta2. > > May I stress that I would never > have been able to locate this much detail without > reconfiguring Bering to use a serial console, and that > message flooding with the present inittab takes place > if I neglect to supply a graphics card, which anyway > should not be necessary for an appliance (my opinion!).
I fully agree, looking at the changelog the first thing that catches my eye is a new busybox release. Ifup/down are busybox applets, so a new version might make a difference. Have you tried to step back on busybox? cheers Erich ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
