>>>>> On Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:51:27 +0100, Dirk Geschke <[email protected]>
>>>>> said:
> maybe this was the problem, I removed the CISCO switch and now
> it seems to overcome this part. Strange...
> Since most will use CISCO: Have you any further pointers to fix
> this?
I'm no network guy. But IIRC you can disable the spanning tree
algorithm in the cisco switches with the portfast option.
> But then I have the next trouble: There is a strange problem with
> the "aufs":
> mount aufs on /root failed with option noatime,dirs=/cow=rw:/live...
> It looks for me as if initramfs is ugly broken...
> Do you have any hints how to proceed?
you can add the string debug to the pxelinux kernel command line, or
break=premount. Then you yet a busybox shell of initramfs and try to
mount manually. Do not use the user space NFS daemon.
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regards Thomas
