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Subject: RE: rootfs
Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:54:31 -0700
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From: "Maxim Kozlovsky" <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
To: "Andy Sharp" <andy.sharp@onstor.com>,
	"Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Sripal Surendiran (HCL)" <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com>,
	"dl-Cougar" <dl-Cougar@onstor.com>,
	"dl-QA" <dl-qa@onstor.com>

Ok I fixed the interfaces file and it helped somewhat. Now the system is
in reboot loop because of the watchdog timeout during the startup.

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Andy Sharp
>Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 6:13 PM
>To: Larry Scheer
>Cc: Sripal Surendiran (HCL); Maxim Kozlovsky; dl-Cougar; dl-QA
>Subject: Re: rootfs
>
>This is a bug with trying to use the dev branch now that the FTI
>stuff has been integrated when running your filer with NFS root and
>dhcp IP address.  When running NFS root, I always set IP address
>statically, but that's just me.
>
>The FTI code sets eth0 up to be set by dhcp, which causes the root file
>system to disappear when dhcp daemon sets the IP address to 0.
>
>This is a bug, but I'm not sure where the fix should go.  I'll leave
>that up to Larry and Sripal.
>
>
>People who need to run NFS root in the meantime can just hack
>their /etc/network/interfaces file and comment out the
>
>auto eth?
>iface
>
>lines.  You should be able to boot after that at least.
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:52:25 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
><larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:
>
>> Max,
>>   I hit the same problem as you. This will delay creating submittal
16
>> until I get to the bottom of this. It doesn't appear to have been a
>> problem with the initial configuration of the root filesystem but
>> something I have yet to identify.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> From: Larry Scheer
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:58 PM
>> To: Maxim Kozlovsky
>> Subject: RE: rootfs
>>
>> It is supposed to work. It must work. But the FTI code was just
merged
>> into the dev branch today and I am just getting around to building
the
>> rootfs from scratch. It build ok for me the last time I did one which
>> was on 3/19. I will know in a 30 minutes or so if I hit the same
>> problem as you.
>>
>> Larry
>>
>> _____________________________________________
>> From: Maxim Kozlovsky
>> Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2008 4:24 PM
>> To: Larry Scheer
>> Subject: rootfs
>>
>> Hi Larry,
>>
>> I have tried to configure the root fs from scratch on my filer as is
>> described on the wiki, and it hangs during the boot:
>>
>> Mounting local filesystems...done.
>> Activating swapfile swap...done.
>> Starting ONStor initial configuration utility:.
>> Setting up networking....
>> Configuring network interfaces...Internet Systems Consortium DHCP
>> Client V3.0.4
>> Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
>> All rights reserved.
>> For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
>>
>> bp0: unknown hardware address type 65535
>>
>> Is this supposed to work at all?
>>
>> Max
