Re: "Failed to read dhcp lease file." ???

Warren Togami wrote:
> John Ellson wrote:
>   
>> Can anyone offer any suggestions?  Or perhaps tell me where the "Failed 
>> to read dhcp lease file." message comes from?
>>
>>     
>
> That message comes from the initrd.  This means PXE told it to download 
> the kernel and initrd which it did, but initrd failed to DHCP itself. 
> This likely is a network issue or the ethernet card on your client 
> unsupported or broken by the drivers, which is rare these days.
>   
The problem was apparently caused by having a second NIC in the box.  It 
wasn't cabled,
but I don't know if that was significant.  Removed it and the box now boots.

Should I report this as a bug in mkinitrd?

John


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