Hello, this post is more a braindump to get my head clear than a real question, but if you have any suggestions you are more than welcome.
Ok, this is the starting point: HP Bladecenter BL c-Class with BL460c G1 blades. So far so good. We have a new FAI setup with version 3.2.4. The FAI server is a seperate maschine. PXE booting work fine, but when the blade should mount the nfsroot it simply hangs. I tried several stock Debian kernels. By hanging I mean the server says "Begin: Mounting root file system... ..." then I get some USB messages, a last greet from the network card bnx2 stating that the link is up and the rest is silence¹) no timeout or what ever. The BL460c blades have two network interfaces, But even disabling one of them int server's BIOS - so that there is only eth0 - doesn't change anything. This is because the kernel detects the interfaces just the other way around than the bios lists them. Booting GRML or a netinst.iso and mounting the nfsroot works fine. Installing some other maschine from the install server is fine. So, I do not get the point what is wrong with our setup. So here are some questions never the less: - Is there a way to get more verbose output from the kernel what he is trying to mount? - Are there other ways to debug the problem? Kind regards, Philipp 1) The kernel is still alice; when mount USB media/devices we see kernel messages on the console.
