On Thu, 2009-06-18 at 14:55 +0200, Seewer Philippe wrote: > This creates a problem for network configuration: If dhcp takes > longer than 30 seconds plus the time we allow for mount fall-through, > an emergency-shell will appear while maybe mount is happending in the > background because dhcp succeeded. > > Any thoughts?
Network booting likely needs to retry DHCP and NFS/netroot mounts if they timeout during boot. Booting a large cluster can cause these timeouts to occur if they overload the server and it's a real PITA to find the machines that didn't boot properly and reboot them. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe initramfs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
