New: forcedeth driver doesn't work during network boot

Bugme-new Andrew Morton 1 participant 1 message May 29, 2009 1 message not in the archive

Subsystems (2)

Networking Network drivers

lore

Share & tools

lore

A message that is not in the archive (sent off-list or not yet received): [email protected]/

Andrew Morton

author

2009-05-29 21:31 UTC #1 lore raw

(switched to email. Please respond via emailed reply-to-all, not via the bugzilla web interface).

Quoted 31 lines · On Thu, 28 May 2009 10:14:30 GMT [email protected] 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: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]
        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.