Bruce B. Platt wrote:
>>>fail at "TSL-initrd: Running evms_activate" by being unable to mount the
>>>root partition.
>>don't use an initrd.
>
> I didn't. I used what you had in the wiki entry. init=/sbin/init.
init=/sbin/init has nothing to do with initrd..
> What appears to be happening (by examining packets with ethereal) is
> that as soon as vmlinuz is transferred by tftpd, the client system
> looses it's IP address as seen by lots of arp requests from the dhcp and
> tftp server for who has the client's IP. I have tried various forms of
> pxelinux.cfg/arp-address and none seem to work!
> Examples:
>
<snip>
> Above APPEND is one line
hell of a lot more than what I use;
LABEL linux
KERNEL vmlinuz-epia
APPEND init=/sbin/init root=/dev/nfs ip=bootp vga=0x315
that's it.. nothing more.
> Losing the IP doesn't happen with the debian boot for example. This
> uses a file much like the second listed above. When it doesn't work
> with TSL 3.0 I think it must have something to do with the kernel.
>
> I have tried two of these, the stock, distributed kernel and a custom
> kernel built with all the relevant NFS choices set to =y in the .config.
>
> This is what has me confused.
maybe you forgot to enable kernel-level autoconfiguration of network?
--
Morten
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