Bug 713335

Summary:	Booting never timeout back to HD after fail to get an IP address with -boot nc
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Mike Cao <bcao>
Component:	etherboot	Assignee:	Virtualization Maintenance <virt-maint>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	5.7	CC:	juzhang, michen, rhod
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Description Mike Cao 2011-06-15 02:46:36 UTC

Description of problem:

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
etherboot-5.4.4-15.el5

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1.start VM with -net nic & -boot nc w/o -net user
eg:<CLI>
-net nic,macaddr=54:52:40:33:4c:58,vlan=0,model=virtio \
-boot nc
  
Actual results:
Guest stuck at "Searching for server (DHCP)...No IP address

Expected results:
guest should timeout back to boot from harddisk after failed to get an ip address 

Additional info: