After installing Fedora 11-preview my diskless PC no longer boots. The initrd hangs when trying to bring te interface up. Remarkable is tha fact that de DHCP server (another Linux PC) registers a full DHCPDISCOVER, -OFFER, -REQUEST and -ACK sequence. Before initrd tries te bring up the interface the BIOS does a PXE boot, which starts a gPXE image which starts the Fedora installation via grub over iscsi. Both the BIOS PXE boot and the gPXE boot run without any trouble. Inird however hangs. The used hardwars is a Asus M3N-VM MoBo with onboard ethernet device.
(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface). On Thu, 28 May 2009 10:14:30 GMT bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13397 > > Summary: forcedeth driver doesn't work during network boot > Product: Drivers > Version: 2.5 > Kernel Version: 2.6.29.3 > Platform: All > OS/Version: Linux > Tree: Mainline > Status: NEW > Severity: high > Priority: P1 > Component: Network > AssignedTo: drivers_network@kernel-bugs.osdl.org > ReportedBy: rolf.fokkens@orange.nl > Regression: No > > > After installing Fedora 11-preview my diskless PC no longer boots. The initrd > hangs when trying to bring te interface up. Remarkable is tha fact that de > DHCP > server (another Linux PC) registers a full DHCPDISCOVER, -OFFER, -REQUEST and > -ACK sequence. > > Before initrd tries te bring up the interface the BIOS does a PXE boot, which > starts a gPXE image which starts the Fedora installation via grub over iscsi. > > Both the BIOS PXE boot and the gPXE boot run without any trouble. Inird > however > hangs. > > The used hardwars is a Asus M3N-VM MoBo with onboard ethernet device. >
I withdraw the reported bug (if that's possible). The problem seems to be in fedora 11 mkinitrd/nash. See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=503109 Sorry for the inconvenience, Rolf Andrew Morton wrote: > (switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the > bugzilla web interface). > > On Thu, 28 May 2009 10:14:30 GMT > bugzilla-daemon@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > > >> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13397 >> >> Summary: forcedeth driver doesn't work during network boot >> Product: Drivers >> Version: 2.5 >> Kernel Version: 2.6.29.3 >> Platform: All >> OS/Version: Linux >> Tree: Mainline >> Status: NEW >> Severity: high >> Priority: P1 >> Component: Network >> AssignedTo: drivers_network@kernel-bugs.osdl.org >> ReportedBy: rolf.fokkens@orange.nl >> Regression: No >> >> >> After installing Fedora 11-preview my diskless PC no longer boots. The >> initrd >> hangs when trying to bring te interface up. Remarkable is tha fact that de >> DHCP >> server (another Linux PC) registers a full DHCPDISCOVER, -OFFER, -REQUEST >> and >> -ACK sequence. >> >> Before initrd tries te bring up the interface the BIOS does a PXE boot, >> which >> starts a gPXE image which starts the Fedora installation via grub over >> iscsi. >> >> Both the BIOS PXE boot and the gPXE boot run without any trouble. Inird >> however >> hangs. >> >> The used hardwars is a Asus M3N-VM MoBo with onboard ethernet device. >> >> > > >