Re: [Clonezilla-live] eth0 eth1 no response loop

[Steven S. <st...@nc...>]

This issue is discussed and answered on

https://sourceforge.net/p/clonezilla/discussion/Clonezilla_live/thread/0a12f366/?limit=50

Steven


On 2017/03/04 04:13, Jeff Sadowski wrote:
>
> I'm using clonezilla-live-2.5.0-25-amd64
>
> I pxe boot clonzilla.
> I have one machine that is hooked up to 2 networks.
> One network is the network I pxe boot clonzilla from the other is a
> static assigned network.
> When I boot this particular machine it reaches pxelinux and allows me
> to choose my clonzilla option.
> It loads the kernel and initrd from tftp.
> When it starts to boot from the initrd image it tries to get an ip
> from eth1 which is on the static network.
> So I see a long loop of "no response."
> If I unplug the rj45 from the other card it boots fine.
> I'd like to pass an option to it to have it use the other card first.
> live-netdevice="eth0" doen't seem to make a difference.
>
> They use that machine often enough I setup another machine in my
> office to experiment with.
> I had a 4 port network card lying around and the motherboard has a pxe
> enabled port.
> So I plugged the 4 port card in and pluged one interface on the 4 port
> card into another on the 4 port card to simulated the static assigned
> network.
> The 4 port card shows up as eth0-3. The onboard nic shows as eth4 but
> if I pass live-netdevice="eth4" it still tries eth0 and I see the loop
> of no response. It looks like it tries eth1 as well but it stops after
> a number of eth1 tries and gives me a prompt of (initramfs).
> If I unplug the cord from eth0 and eth1 it boots up just fine.
>
> I added the live-netdevice= to the pxelinux.cfg/default file's append
> lines
>
> label Clonezilla-live Stable 2017-02-20 x64
>   menu label Clonezilla Live 2017-02-20 x64 (Stable)
>   kernel cz170220.x64/live/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=cz170220.x64/live/initrd.img boot=live union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 k
> eyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_live
> _run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 toram=filesystem.squashfs ip=dhcp net.ifnames=0  splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 ocs_prerun="dhclient && mount -t nfs <nfs_server>:<nfs_mountpoint>" fetch=tftp://<tftp_server>/cz160627.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs
> label Clonezilla-live Stable 2017-02-20 x64 eth0 option
>   menu label Clonezilla Live 2017-02-20 x64 (Stable) eth0 option
>   kernel cz170220.x64/live/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=cz170220.x64/live/initrd.img boot=live live-netdevice="eth0" union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 k
> eyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_live
> _run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 toram=filesystem.squashfs ip=dhcp net.ifnames=0  splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 ocs_prerun="dhclient && mount -t nfs <nfs_server>:<nfs_mountpoint>" fetch=tftp://<tftp_server>/cz160627.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs
> label Clonezilla-live Stable 2017-02-20 x64 eth1 option
>   menu label Clonezilla Live 2017-02-20 x64 (Stable) eth1 option
>   kernel cz170220.x64/live/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=cz170220.x64/live/initrd.img boot=live live-netdevice="eth1" union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 toram=filesystem.squashfs ip=dhcp net.ifnames=0  splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 ocs_prerun="dhclient && mount -t nfs <nfs_server>:<nfs_mountpoint>" fetch=tftp://<tftp_server>/cz160627.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs
> label Clonezilla-live Stable 2017-02-20 x64 eth4 option
>   menu label Clonezilla Live 2017-02-20 x64 (Stable) eth1 option
>   kernel cz170220.x64/live/vmlinuz
>   append initrd=cz170220.x64/live/initrd.img boot=live live-netdevice="eth4" union=overlay username=user hostname=clonezilla config quiet components noswap edd=on nomodeset nodmraid noeject locales=en_US.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=NONE ocs_live_run="ocs-live-general" ocs_live_extra_param="" ocs_live_batch=no vga=788 toram=filesystem.squashfs ip=dhcp net.ifnames=0  splash i915.blacklist=yes radeonhd.blacklist=yes nouveau.blacklist=yes vmwgfx.enable_fbdev=1 ocs_prerun="dhclient && mount -t nfs <nfs_server>:<nfs_mountpoint>" fetch=tftp://<tftp_server>/cz160627.x64/live/filesystem.squashfs
>
> What is going on. why is it ignoring live-netdevice option?
>
>
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