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Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 17:37:34 -0700
From: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
To: "Larry Scheer" <larry.scheer@onstor.com>
Cc: "Sripal Surendiran (HCL)" <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: rootfs]
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OK, Sripal, go ahead and check this in.  Sorry for the long delay.


On Tue, 8 Apr 2008 16:59:28 -0700 "Larry Scheer"
<larry.scheer@onstor.com> wrote:

> I just got to testing this.
> It worked for me.
> 
> Larry
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Sharp 
> Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:32 PM
> To: Sripal Surendiran (HCL)
> Cc: Larry Scheer
> Subject: Re: [Fwd: RE: rootfs]
> 
> 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=`df / | egrep '/dev|[0-9]:' | awk '{print $1}'`
> > i*f [ "$DISKTYPE" != "/dev/root" ]; then  ---> the culprit is
> > here...* exit 0
> > fi
> > 
> > It should have been *[ "$DISKTYPE" = "/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.
> > 
> > Thanks
> > Sripal.
> > 
> > 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:
> > >
> > >   
> > >> 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
> > >>
> > >>     
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 01:15:02 +0530 Sripal
> > > <sripal.surendiran@onstor.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >   
> > >> Andy,
> > >>
> > >> I have done fix for user having NFS root. The fix will prevent
> > >> the 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'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
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>     
