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I'm setting up machines with nfsroot. dhcp works fine, but a static address fails to set resolvconf. The document https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/filesystems/nfs/nfsroot.txt states that there are between one and nine fields in the kernel command line option 'ip=' separated by colons. The last two are dns0 and dns1 e.g. APPEND root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/exports/nfsroot initrd=boot/initrd.img ip=10.0.0.200:10.0.0.1:10.0.0.1:255.0.0.0:itx1c:eth0:off:10.0.0.1:0.0.0.0 rootwait=1 nfsdebug=1 nfsrootdebug=1 rw I find that if I supply one or both dns addresses, then the boot fails with the message ipconfig: too many options for eth0 and then when configure_networking (from scripts/functions in /usr/share/initramsfs-tools/) runs (called by scripts/nfs) says it can't create it's temp file /tmp/net-eth0:off:10.0.0.1:0.0.0.0 After that we get a kernel panic as init completes badly. Clearly the command line parsing does not meet the spec in the above reference. I'm sure I can work round this by not supplying dns addresses in the command line and re-writing /etc/resolv.conf elsewhere, but this needs fixing properly. I'm not sure if the ip= line is parsed elsewhere so I don't have enough information to offer a proper fix. ** Affects: initramfs-tools Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: klibc Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: linux (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bot-comment initramfs-tools nfsroot -- Kernel command line does not correctly parse ip field if nfsroot https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1251274 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to linux in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
