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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: nfsroot doesn't work with intel card since 2.6.12.2/2.6.11
Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 19:52:04 -0800 (PST)
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Followup to:  <20060205215455.7622B1C8E46@fisica.ufpr.br>
By author:    carlos@fisica.ufpr.br (Carlos Carvalho)
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> We have several machines with Intel Corp. 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet
> Controller (Copper) (rev 02), as reported by lspci. They don't manage
> to mount the rootfs via nfs anymore. I've tried several combinations
> and the last one that works is 2.6.12.2 using the 2.6.11 version of
> the driver (simply replacing the files in the tree). 2.6.12.2 with its
> own driver doesn't work.
> 
> There seems to be a pattern: at each version the machine has more
> difficulty mounting the rootfs. Other machines using other ethercards
> but with the same server and filesystem work normally.
> 

Care to try out the klibc tree?

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/hpa/linux-2.6-klibc.git

	-hpa
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