Hi Thomas, > The one in the tftp directory is used.
ah, thanks for clarification. > > Do you use an DHCP gateway or DHCP forwarding? There were problems > with older versions of ipconfig in the initrd, which did not work when > using a DHCP gateway. Search the mail archive for this. No, there is no DHCP gateway, they are in the same subnet. > And check if you can see the DHCP request (and answers) on your install server That is even strange, a tcpdump shows: [... a lot of tftp data...] 17:32:50.317394 IP 10.253.1.18.57093 > 10.253.1.17.35690: UDP, length 4 17:32:50.317400 IP 10.253.1.17.35690 > 10.253.1.18.57093: UDP, length 121 17:32:50.317477 IP 10.253.1.18.57093 > 10.253.1.17.35690: UDP, length 4 17:32:54.226209 arp who-has 10.253.1.18 tell 10.253.1.17 17:32:55.226225 arp who-has 10.253.1.18 tell 10.253.1.17 17:32:56.226243 arp who-has 10.253.1.18 tell 10.253.1.17 17:32:59.498484 IP 10.253.1.17.67 > 10.253.1.18.68: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 300 17:32:59.498644 IP 10.253.1.17.67 > 10.253.1.18.68: BOOTP/DHCP, Reply, length 300 10.253.1.18 is the client, 10.253.1.17 is the server. For the moment I am not sure why I can not see the request. Maybe I used the wrong BPF rule. I will check this... The last message is still form ipconfig mentioning that it tries to get the IP address via DHCP RARP, then I see two kernel messages regarding tg3: eth0: link is up ... After this the machine hungs, no crash, no response to a signal. All I can do is CTRL-ALT-DEL and reboot. So it seems not to be a kernel problem, I guess. Best regards Dirk -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Dirk Geschke / Plankensteinweg 61 / 85435 Erding | | Telefon: 08122-559448 / Mobil: 0176-96906350 / Fax: 08122-9818106 | | [email protected] / [email protected] / [email protected] | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+
