Re: !!!checksum problem of network boot image for linux!!!

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:07 AM,  <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It seems that the problem is that kernel lose the network information
> after loading and starting the kernel or that the information in
> kernel parameter "ip=dhcp" has no effect. The kernel is not able to
> mount the rootfilesystem in case of missing network information (no
> IP, no netmask, no gateway, just nothing). So the questions are: Why
> does the kernel not hand over the network information from
> etherboot/BIOS? Or why does the kernel make no new DHCP request resp.
> why does the kernel parameter "ip=dhcp" or
> "ip=192.9.200.155:192.9.200.137:192.9.200.129:255.255.255.192:pilas5:eth0:off"
> have no effect?
>
> With the kernel 2.4.32 and mkelf-linux it was so easy.

As I said before, a SuSE specific tutorial for network booting could
be very helpful. It's very well possible that your initrd doesn't even
contain any network drivers.

> Thanks.
> Best regards,
> Torsten B.
>

Thomas

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