On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 02:44:32PM -0800, kegstand wrote: > On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 2:28 PM, Robin Lee Powell < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I'm trying to FAI a machine with two NICs, only one of which I'm > > using. It netboots, but hangs at: > > > > IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:e0:81:45:ed:8a mtu 1500 DHCP > > RARP > > > > That's never going to answer, because that's not the NIC I'm > > using, but it never times out either. How do I get things past > > this point? > > > > I have blown many hours on this. You should try to disable one of > your NICs in the bios .
Several hundred of our machines have two NICs we actually use both of, so no. > I ended up making a fai config for > > machine-nic1 > > and machine-nic2 > > the machine would intiially netboot off of machine-nic1, then > further in the fai process it would dhcp off of machine-nic2 > > after everything was done installing, I would delete all tftpd > pxelinux files except for "default" Ouch. Thanks. -Robin -- They say: "The first AIs will be built by the military as weapons." And I'm thinking: "Does it even occur to you to try for something other than the default outcome?" -- http://shorl.com/tydruhedufogre http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/
