netcfg fails to recognize BOOTIF

[Jens Elkner]

I'm trying to create a hands-off server installation, however, it seems impossible wrt. Ubuntu. One thing is the buggy netcfg:

Aug 31 15:29:26 netcfg[696]: INFO: Starting netcfg v.1.116ubuntu1 (built 20140403-1424)
...
Aug 31 15:29:26 netcfg[696]: INFO: Could not find valid BOOTIF= entry in /proc/cmdline

But: cat /proc/cmdline
BOOT_IMAGE=http://141.44.24.61/boot/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64/vmlinuz ks=http://pkg/cgi-bin/ubuntu priority=low ksdevice=bootif BOOT_DEBUG=3 nousbnet textonly console=ttyS1,115200 initrd=http://141.44.24.61/boot/ubuntu-14.04.1-server-amd64/initrd.gz BOOTIF=01-00-25-90-eb-9e-aa

[Jens Elkner (jelmd)]

Digging around I found the curent runk for netconfig and saw, that it probably finds BOOTIF= now and used this binary instead. However, it doesn't seem to work (at least not as I expect it, i.e. what other distros/demos do). So I created the follwoing patches, which make it work.

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[Jens Elkner (jelmd)]

BTW: the netcfg of the current netboot image (xenial) coredumps very often, is absolutely unreliable now. Shuold be replaced by udhcpc.