Holger Levsen schrieb: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 17:50, Thomas Lange wrote: >> Are you using a Cisco switch? I had similar problems with Cisco >> switches when not enabling the fastport feature (this disables >> spanning tree). > > But Ingo wrote, those cards work with the debian-installer (and others)... so > I don't think it's the switch.
I don't think also ... > Ingo, do current debian-installer daily builds (which (should) use 2.6.18) > work as well? Debian-installer etch RC1 had 2.6.17, but the dailys should > have .18 by now... I've tested it with kernel 2.6.17 from debian 2.6.17, 2.6.18 and 2.6.19 from kernel.org and i still got this error. But i think i found a solution: initrd i've installed linux-image-2.6.17-2-486 and initramfs-tools from etch in the nfsroot. I configured mkinitramfs to use nfs: diff /etc/initramfs-tools/initramfs.conf* 18c18 < MODULES=netboot --- > MODULES=most 39c39 < BOOT=nfs --- > BOOT=local And created a initrd suitable for nfs-boot: mkinitramfs -o /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486-nfs 2.6.17-2-486 The file /boot/initrd.img-2.6.17-2-486-nfs i've put into the tftpdir and i configured pxelinux.cfg/default: LABEL faisysinfo KERNEL fai/vmlinuz APPEND initrd=fai/initrd FAI_ACTION=sysinfo ip=dhcp SERVER=faiserver devfs=nomount root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,syslogd -- This seems to work, but there is still an annoying bug probably in task_confdir: fai prints: Kernel parameters: ( ... stuff deleted ... ) Kernel parameter ip= does not contain network parameters. Reading /tmp/fai/boot.log Here task_confdir waits for several minutes, and then continues ... task_confdir waits in line: syslogd -m 0 -p /tmp/etc/syslogsocket But: seems to be not too hard to get rid of fai-kernels this fai ;-) Ingo
