Just for the sake of providing LUCID-Users that need to rely on PXE boot
with a workaround:

After the initrd was created, decompress it and open the file scripts/functions.
Find the three lines invoking "ipconfig -t 60 ..." and duplicate then several 
times - but change the timeout to something around 15 seconds.

As soon as one of the ipconfig processes succeeds, the later ones will
just ignore the invokation since you already are provided with a valid
IP address. If the ipconfig process fails to obtain an address on an
e1000 interface, the next line tries again.

With 3 sequential invokations we now have 100% success rate on our boot
process.

It is a very dirty workaround, but that will be OK until we are ready to
migrate to maverick or natty.

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Title:
  ipconfig fails sporadically with e1000

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