initramfs-tools uses dhcp even with a static ip address in comand line

[Adrian Vasile]

Binary package hint: initramfs-tools

My initramfs-tools version: 0.92bubuntu29
Noticed this on a jaunty based clonezilla-live cd, booted with a cmdline like:

boot=live union=aufs netboot="nfs" ip=192.168.171.121::192.168.171.254:255.255.255.0::eth0 nfsroot=192.168.137.1:/live quickreboot noprompt noprompt nolocales

What happens is that no matter the ip= parameter, the network ends up being "configured" by dhcp so booting just hangs when there's no dhcp offer.

The simple fix for me is attached. Changing this and rebuilding the initrd worked for me. Someone with more experience with initramfs-tools should look into how to make this work for all people (many of them do use dhcp), since this might break things for them.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Your report concerns a file in live-initramfs, although at first glance casper looks as though it may suffer from a similar problem.

[DeeKey (privateinf)]

Yes, Casper also suffers from it. Here is a mail thread describing it:
http://<email address hidden>/msg00207.html

Is it possible to fix this problem by editing initramfs files and without recompilation?

[Stéphane Graber (stgraber)]

casper uses initramfs-tools' function for that which parses ip= properly (at least from reading the code). casper never directly checks $INTERFACE.

[Phillip Susi (psusi)]

This package has been removed from Ubuntu. It has been replaced by the live-boot package. If you still have this issue with the live-boot package in 12.04 or later, please reopen and reassign to that package.