Re: Failed Install - Post-Reboot network is lost

[Erik Dykema <ed2019@columbia.edu>]

One more note-
	After the install has completed, I rebooted the machine.  As it is 
going down,
 something about the /network/interfaces file flashes onscreen, though 
too quick to read vigorously.
	When it comes back up, the network doesn't work anymore until I run 
dhclient again manually.

Erik


> Everything seems to work great up until the moment that the machine 
> reboots.  After this point, the network seems to be lost.  I put in my 
> mirror information, and it comes back and says 'Temporary Failure 
> Resolving...'.
>
> I dropped into a shell and ran ifconfig -a, and it showed me the 
> interfaces, I looked in dmesg and it loaded the correct drivers 
> (eepro100), it just for some reason failed dhcp, perhaps it timed out.
>
> I ran dhclient and it worked, bound the adapter to the address, and now 
> installation seems to be proceeding normally.
>
> I think that either dhclient wasn't run before, or it failed / timed 
> out, and wasn't retried, nor was warning given.
>
> Perhaps the proper behavior should be to try DHCP, and if it fails give 
> a 'Try again sometimes it's slow' dialogue like in the initial installer 
> boot.
>
>
> thanks,
> Erik