Robin Lee Powell wrote:
On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 01:21:27PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
Thank you for that, sincerely.
However, I keep asking whether any of these workarounds are
going to make it into FAI mainline, and people keep sending me
more workarounds, which is not what I was asking about!
As far as I can tell, it's really not a problem of FAI, but an
issue in initramfs. I thus doubt that "it will make it into FAI
mainline".
After a stupendous amount of research, I've figured out what you
meant. :) Sorry about that. I'm coming into this not
understanding FAI internal at all.
The problem appears to be with
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/scripts/live inside of the live-initramfs
package, which calls ipconfig without a -t option.
I tried to make a workaround, but it fails badly:
Running: ipconfig -t 10 eth0
IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:e0:81:45:ed:8a mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
[ 25.776115] Kernel panic - not syncing: Attempted to kill init!
What it was actually running:
echo "Running: ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE}"
ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} || echo "ipconfig -t 10 ${DEVICE} failed" | tee
/netboot.config
I don't understand how that caused a kernel panic, and I don't know
enough of the internals to have a reasonable chance of figuring it
out in a reasonable amount of time; suggestions welcome.
-Robin
Really, try the thread I linked in my last response to this thread. Are
you sure you're sourcing each output file generated by ipconfig?
https://lists.uni-koeln.de/pipermail/linux-fai/2008-December/006457.html
HTH,
Ryan
