Re: booting from host with multiple network cards

2009-12-29 Diskussionsfäden Michael Prokop
* Thomas Neumann blacky+...@fluffbunny.de [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

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 la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de 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

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 la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de 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. *

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 la...@informatik.uni-koeln.de a écrit : On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:05:47 +0100, Frédéric Boiteux fboit...@calistel.com said: has a cable plugged, to run ipconfig on this one. I can give it if someone is interested? Yes, please post

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 be

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/remember,

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 Regards,

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

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 gla...@physik.fu-berlin.de 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

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 automatically

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 interfaces (2