initramfs doesnt load network modules for nfs root

Bug #26429 reported by Oliver Grawert
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
initramfs-tools (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Scott James Remnant (Canonical)

Bug Description

seems due to the the latest changes to initramfs the BOOT=nfs parameter in
/etc/mkinitramfs/initramfs.conf doesnt result in loaded network card drivers in
premount anymore, which indeed prevents / to be mounted. via nfs
booting with break=premount and using the reciepe i got yesterday on IRC from
you to make the ide-disk module
 load while replacing the ide drivers with the appropriate netcard drivers makes
it work just fine.

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote :

forgot to mention, that breaks ltsp indeed ...

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Interesting, we completely forgot about that in UdevRoadmap.

What kind of network controllers do we support? Out of:
 1) pci
 2) usb
 3) pcmcia
etc.

#1 can be solved with a call like "udevplug -Bpci -Iclass=0x0200*" in
init-premount ... does that load your network card module when you boot with
break=premount?

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote :

Fixed in 0ubuntu5

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