[Voyage-linux] quick voyage boot

[Kim-man 'Punky' TSE]

Hi Joe,

Please reply to the list so that others is able to add comments

Take a look to dhclient.conf, may be some setting there yo can control 
timeout and retry.

- Punky

Think Blue Media wrote:
> Hi punky,
>
> I removed auto eth0 as you suggested however now it doesn't request an IP at
> all. Is it possible to make it just request once and if it doesn't get a
> response then carry on with the boot as opposed to reattempting over and
> over which holds up the boot process massively.
>
> Cheers
>
> Joe
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Punky Tse [mailto:punkytse at punknix.com] 
> Sent: 03 July 2007 17:26
> To: Solomon Asare
> Cc: Think Blue Media; voyage-linux
> Subject: Re: [Voyage-linux] quick voyage boot
>
> Hi all,
>
> 1. remove "auto eth0" in /etc/network/interfaces.  it makes dhclient not 
> requesting DHCP lease
> 2. udev, again, is the evil.  Remove z25_persistent-net.rules and 
> z45_persistent-net-generator.rules under /etc/udev/rules.d before copy 
> over to CF.
>
> - Punky
>
> Solomon Asare wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>> I don't know eactly what is it that u did.
>> If i do (u can put them in a file and make it
>> executable):
>>
>> /etc/init.d/networking restart
>> echo "networkig done"
>>
>> it takes a long time for the networking to complete
>> after which "networking done" is displayed.
>>
>> On the other hand if i do:
>>
>> /etc/init.d/networking restart &
>> echo "networkig done"
>>
>> "networking done" is displayed immediately whilst
>> /etc/init.d/..... keeps running. You may go further in
>> silencing it by sending the output to /dev/null.
>>
>> Please post to the list to benifit from a lot more
>> people.
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> solo.
>>
>>
>>
>> --- Think Blue Media <joe.ross at thinkbluemedia.co.uk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>   
>>     
>>> Thanks for the help Solomon,
>>>
>>> Unfortunately that didn't seem to work. I tried
>>> putting the & symbol where
>>> you suggested but that threw back a syntax error. My
>>> main issue is with
>>> DHCP. Is there any way I can stop dhcp from
>>> reattempting to connect over and
>>> over again when there is no Ethernet connection.
>>>
>>> I also have an issue with the eth number
>>> incrementing eg eth6 eth7 etc. This
>>> only happens when I copy the contents of my drive
>>> (I'm running off of a
>>> Compact flash card) to another drive and start it on
>>> another mother board.
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help so far
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Solomon Asare [mailto:solomonasare at yahoo.com] 
>>> Sent: 03 July 2007 11:40
>>> To: Think Blue Media
>>> Subject: Fwd: RE: [Voyage-linux] quick voyage boot
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>> did you see this?
>>>
>>> Note: forwarded message attached.
>>>
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
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>
>
>   


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Punky

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