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sekenre

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Registered: 2009-04-14

Posts: 16

Unable to configure eth0 on kernel command line

I am trying to set up nfsroot on my eeePC 701, it worked fine when using kernel-2.6.30 but since the upgrade it fails to boot and brings up the minimal busybox shell.

I am following the guide here: [wiki]Mkinitcpio#Using_net[/wiki]

my kernel CMD line looks like this:

root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.100:/export/havik ip=dhcp

This worked fine before but now (kernel-2.6.32-10) It can't find the nfs device, I tracked this down to it completely ignoring the "ip" option in the command line.

When I am in the busybox shell I can manually set up networking (ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.110 just works) and all relavent modules are present and correct. I don't even have to modprobe atl2 or nfs.

Any ideas?