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Bugme-new Andrew Morton 2 participants 2 messages Dec 29, 2007 – Dec 30, 2007 1 message not in the archive

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Quoted 26 lines · On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 11:54:07 -0800 (PST) [email protected] wrote:

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9661

           Summary: Booting from nfsroot fails
           Product: Networking
           Version: 2.5
     KernelVersion: 2.6.24-rc6-git4
          Platform: All
        OS/Version: Linux
              Tree: Mainline
            Status: NEW
          Severity: blocking
          Priority: P1
         Component: IPV4
        AssignedTo: [email protected]
        ReportedBy: [email protected]

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.24-rc6-git3
Distribution: Debian GNU Linux 4.0/Etch
Hardware Environment: Intel DG965SS, 4GB RAM, onboard e1000, no HDD Software Environment: Debian GNU Linux 4.0r2 x86_64
Problem Description: Starting with -git4 release the System won't boot from network. Booting with root=/dev/nfs ip=dhcp for example ends in asking the user to insert a boot floppy. This is obviously not the expected result when booting from network.

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The cause seem to be the changeset a6c05c3d064dbb83be88cba3189beb5db9d2dfc3. Looking at the code I found that ic_enable doesn't get set as expected. This prevents the kernel from initializing the ip configuration.

The patch & my LK conf (for reference) are attached. This may be not the ideal way of solving this, there are probably better ones. This one "Works For Me" :)

Thanks for the fix, but please send patches via email and not via bugzilla?

Suitable recipients for this one would be

[email protected]
Simon Horman <[email protected]>
"David S. Miller" <[email protected]>