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Mr Green

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Adding network support to initramfs

Tried to use 'net' hook but it failed to create initramfs. Am thinking along the lines of a way of adding network support to a failed boot.

Not really sure what to add to mkinitcpio.conf to get over this problem... my first thought was to add required modules for network.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mk … mmon_hooks does show a 'net' hook...

Is there a way to add network support?

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ukhippo

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Registered: 2014-02-21

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Re: Adding network support to initramfs

As the table in that wiki page shows, the “net” hook is for installing support for an NFS root. It's provided by the mkinitcpio-nfs-utils package.

If you don't configure the NFS root on the kernel command line you'll have latent support in the initramfs. That package also provides a tool “ipconfig” for setting up the network. So you can use that tool in the emergency shell.