Re: [Clonezilla-live] passing static ip to initramfs in Clonezilla build 2.1-39 not working

[Carl K. <ca...@pe...>]

Tim Gebbett wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> Does anyone know if passing static ip details to the initramfs via a 
> syslinux/pxelinux menu entry works?
> 
> The line in question reads (line split for easier reading):
> 
> append initrd=http://193.189.140.120/otw/cz/live/initrd1.img
> 
> console=ttyS1,57600n8 boot=live union=aufs noprompt
> 
> ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_keymap=""
> 
> ocs_live_batch="no" ocs_lang="" nolocales
> 
> ip=x.x.x.x::x.x.x.x:255.255.255.0:clonezilla:eth0:off
> 
> vga=normal fetch=http://x.x.x.x/otw/cz/live/filesystem.squashfs
> 
> 
> The official way from Debian Live is:
> 
> 
> ip=[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF] 
> [,[CLIENT_IP]:[SERVER_IP]:[GATEWAY_IP]:[NETMASK]:[HOSTNAME]:[DEVICE]:[AUTOCONF]]*
> 
> 
> I have found various pages explaining how to deal with the AUTOCONF field, 
> putting none, off, <blank> all to no effect. Also I am guessing that if 
> you are providing static ip and loading squash_fs via a fetch: line you 
> would leave the SERVER_IP field blank (I have also tried it with the 
> target ip). Every combination I have tried ends up with initramfs issuing 
> bootp requests regardless:
> 
> IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:1e:c9:f7:56:27 mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
> [   20.146038] tg3: eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex.
> [   20.146038] tg3: eth0: Flow control is off for TX and off for RX.
> 
> 
> I do not have the ability to implement a dhcpd setup since the machines 
> are based on live public connections at the datacentre.
> 
> Could anyone help with the correct syntax or any reports of being able to 
> boot via static?
> 

It's booting a ubuntu kernel, so that's where to look for docs.

I do a bit with net booting the ubuntu installer, which I 'think' uses the same 
kernel, so the docs for that should be the same, and I think if you dig into

/usr/share/doc/installation-guide-i386/example-preseed.txt.gz

and the docs in that dir you will see how to pass networking parameters for when 
the preseed file needs to be fetched over the network.

Not sure if how this will help, but here is the lines from default

label ubuntu-jaunty-handsoff
         kernel ubuntu/jaunty/linux
         append initrd=ubuntu/jaunty/initrd.gz root=/dev/rd/0 rw locale=en_US 
console-setup/layoutcode=us netcfg/wireless_wep= netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 
netcfg/get_hostname= DEBCONF_DEBUG=5 url=http://shaz/ubuntu/preseed.cfg 
tasksel:tasksel/first="" -- vga=6

so the interesting parts:
netcfg/wireless_wep= netcfg/choose_interface=eth0 netcfg/get_hostname=

but but but, I am pretty sure that applies to the installer that is in initrd - 
not sure how it would apply to the ubuntu kernel and or clonezilla.

so end the end, I have no clue really :)

Carl K