Bug 973340
| Summary: | pxe install on system with multiple NICs has a long pause at the beginning | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Jimmy Dorff <jdorff> | ||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED EOL | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||
| Version: | 19 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, harald, jonathan, mkolman, rvykydal, sbueno, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||
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| Hardware: | x86_64 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2015-02-17 15:32:22 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||||
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Description
Jimmy Dorff
2013-06-11 18:03:47 UTC
Created attachment 759754 [details]
intel desktop with 3 nics also pausing during pxe boot
Yes, this is caused by initramfs waiting for link. If a network connection is required in initramfs, and no device specification (eg ip=em1:dhcp) was given as boot option, initramfs tries to activate all devices, therefore waiting for link of p1p1, p1p2. Installer (before loader was replaced with dracut in F17) used to activate only first device (with link) found if not specified in boot options. Currently, you can specify the device to be activated: 1) using device name, eg: ip=em1:dhcp 2) by adding "ipappend 2" to PXE configuration which will supply BOOTIF=XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX-XX option (mangled MAC address of device used for booting) to initramfs 3) by using ksdevice=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (MAC address) I see two issues here: - change of default behaviour: activating all devices instead of one if no devcice is specified - it would be nice to be able to specify MAC address (for matching the device) in ip= option instead of using (deprecated) ksdevice option Harald, am I correct in comment #2 ? Well, due to the nature of random module loading order, there is no "first" link. The "first" link can vary from boot to boot. (In reply to Radek Vykydal from comment #3) > Harald, am I correct in comment #2 ? yes (In reply to Harald Hoyer from comment #4) > Well, due to the nature of random module loading order, there is no "first" > link. > The "first" link can vary from boot to boot. > Yes, by first I rather meant alphabetical order of device names, but a name could have been assigned to different devices across boots or installation instances, so no consistency guarantees... This message is a notice that Fedora 19 is now at end of life. Fedora has stopped maintaining and issuing updates for Fedora 19. It is Fedora's policy to close all bug reports from releases that are no longer maintained. Approximately 4 (four) weeks from now this bug will be closed as EOL if it remains open with a Fedora 'version' of '19'. Package Maintainer: If you wish for this bug to remain open because you plan to fix it in a currently maintained version, simply change the 'version' to a later Fedora version. Thank you for reporting this issue and we are sorry that we were not able to fix it before Fedora 19 is end of life. If you would still like to see this bug fixed and are able to reproduce it against a later version of Fedora, you are encouraged change the 'version' to a later Fedora version prior this bug is closed as described in the policy above. Although we aim to fix as many bugs as possible during every release's lifetime, sometimes those efforts are overtaken by events. Often a more recent Fedora release includes newer upstream software that fixes bugs or makes them obsolete. Fedora 19 changed to end-of-life (EOL) status on 2015-01-06. Fedora 19 is no longer maintained, which means that it will not receive any further security or bug fix updates. As a result we are closing this bug. If you can reproduce this bug against a currently maintained version of Fedora please feel free to reopen this bug against that version. If you are unable to reopen this bug, please file a new report against the current release. If you experience problems, please add a comment to this bug. Thank you for reporting this bug and we are sorry it could not be fixed. |