Hi Thomas On Wednesday 01 December 2010 17:19:23 Thomas Lange wrote: > > One machine is multi-homed, i.e. has 3 NICs, two onboard e1000e and > > one 10Gb ..... , is there a way to know in the initrd > > phase from which NIC the kernel and initrd were served (maybe just > > the MAC) and try that device first to mount the NFSROOT from? > > Use fai-chboot -P. The initrd code includes some code which evaluates > the BOOTIF kernel boot parameters. fai-chboot -P in cooperation with > pxelinux will set this variable.
This looks much more promising than Michael's proposal, especially if - over time - a large number of machine which were more or less homogeneous are becoming mire and more diverse. We'll try that, thank you! Cheers Carsten
