[Bug 181258] Re: problem about diskless booting

[jgcb]

Hello,

I can report the same problem for a diskless client with two NICs.
During booting the diskless client, one time the NIC1 becomes eth0 and another time NIC2 becomes eth0.
The result is, that booting in case one works right and in case two the system hangs because of not getting an IP. 
This error happens before the root file system via NFS is attached. So it can be either a problem of PXElinux or of a buggy initramfs which is built through initramfs-tools. I checked ubuntu versions 8.04-Desktop-amd64 and the new 8.10-server-amd64.  The problem happens on both versions.
Does anybody has experiences in building initrd for diskless clients with multiple NICs and can report on which linux distribution or initramfs-tools version it works?

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problem about diskless booting
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