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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:31:35 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: Sripal <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com>
Cc: Larry Scheer <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: rootfs]
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I can't remember what happened with this.  Larry, did you get a chance
to try this modification to Sripal's change?


On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:24:01 +0530 Sripal
<sripal.surendiran@onstor.com> wrote:

> #check if the filer boots using NFS root
> DISKTYPE=3D`df / | egrep '/dev|[0-9]:' | awk '{print $1}'`
> i*f [ "$DISKTYPE" !=3D "/dev/root" ]; then  ---> the culprit is here...*
>     exit 0
> fi
>=20
> It should have been *[ "$DISKTYPE" =3D "/dev/root" ]*
> I changed this in my filer while testing but forget to update the
> source tree. Sorry about that.
> Now I have rectified the problem.
>=20
> Thanks
> Sripal.
>=20
> Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > Sripal,
> >
> > I had Larry test this as he is the most important NFS root user.  He
> > reports to me that it hangs in the same place as before.  Were you
> > able to test this yourself?
> >
> > On Fri, 4 Apr 2008 15:37:16 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
> > <larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:
> >
> >  =20
> >> I put this change and I am hung at the same place:
> >>
> >> 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
> >>
> >>    =20
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:15:02 +0530 Sripal
> > <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com> wrote:
> >
> >  =20
> >> Andy,
> >>
> >> I have done fix for user having NFS root. The fix will prevent the=20
> >> dhclient from updating interface ip while it is trying to contact
> >> the DHCP server.
> >>
> >> Change id: 28659
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Sripal.
> >>
> >> -------- Original Message --------
> >> Subject: 	RE: rootfs
> >> Date: 	Tue, 1 Apr 2008 17:52:25 -0700
> >> From: 	Larry Scheer <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
> >> To: 	Sripal Surendiran (HCL) <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com>,
> >> Maxim Kozlovsky <maxim.kozlovsky@onstor.com>
> >> CC: 	dl-Cougar <dl-Cougar@onstor.com>, dl-QA
> >> <dl-qa@onstor.com>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Max,
> >>
> >> I hit the same problem as you. This will delay creating submittal
> >> 16 until I get to the bottom of this. It doesn=E2=80=99t 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
> >>
> >>
> >>    =20
