Re: netboot with DFE-530ct

[Thierry Laronde]

On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 11:59:13AM +0200, Sune Rastad Bahn wrote:
> This is probably an etherboot issue rather than a grub bug, but nevertheless:
> 
> using the D-link card DFE-530ct together with the otulip driver gives the 
> following curious behavior:
> when booting a kernel:
>  
> (nd)/vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/nfs
> 
> from the grub menu it hangs and oops on a regular basis
> whereas booting the same kernel from the grub-prompt
> (with the exact same parameters) reveals no apparent problems.

I had some weird problems between `menu' versus `command line' but that
was not related to network. So I think the driver is not at fault but
there is indeed something messed up in the "parsing" of the menu.
Problem is: is this related to some modification made recently or was it
already the case in such cases with previous versions but nobody
test them? I have no time _now_ but if nobody gives it a look I will
try... later.

Hint: would you mind trying the following in the menu:

root (nd)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.2.20 root=/dev/nfs

and tell if segregating the device (root) from the filename works under
the menu?

Cheers,
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