Failed Install - Post-Reboot network is lost
Hi-
This is my first install report, apoligies for errors, welcome correction.
thanks,
Erik Dykema
INSTALL REPORT
Debian-installer-version: Jan 12 Daily, from
http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/images/daily/
uname -a: Linux 2.4.22-1-386 #9 Sat Oct 4 14:30.39 i686 unknown
Date: Jan 8, 2004, 11:00am
Method: Network install via pxelinux: pxelinux.cfg/default:
LABEL sarge
KERNEL vmlinuz
APPEND load initrd=netboot-initrd.gz devfs=mount ramdisk_size=8192
root=/dev/ram0 console=tty0
Machine: Dell PowerApp Web 100
Processor: 1 Pentium 2
Memory: 128 MB
Root Device: Adaptec AIC-7892a
Root Size/partition table:
disk1 resiserfs 9 gigs
disk5 linux swap 256 megs
Base System Installation Checklist:
Initial boot worked: [O]
Configure network HW: [O]
Config network: [O]
Detect CD: [ ]
Load installer modules: [O]
Detect hard drives: [O]
Partition hard drives: [O]
Create file systems: [O]
Mount partitions: [O]
Install base system: [O]
Install boot loader: [O]
Reboot: [E]
[O] = OK, [E] = Error (please elaborate below), [ ] = didn't try it
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
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