- Ethernet
Was buggered, is fixed now :-)
When did it become un-buggered?
According to this bug log:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux-linaro/+bug/673820
(my own entry ;-) it was 2011-08-31.
Tim Klein here is trying to get said machine to boot over TFTP with NFS root and it just hangs at init.
How do you know it hangs? :-) What I mean it the fact it seems to be hung after the kernel initialization is done (which is what I think you mean) suggests a problem with the boot scripts (upstart or whatever). I've observed similar behaviour with 11.06 or 11.07 when using my own kernel (no initrd) - setting CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y helped and I couldn't be bothered with debugging upstart :-)
Which rootfs version and kernel are known to work?
It was a hardware issue, not a kernel/rootfs one. ARM Support has a fix and can provide to engineers on case-by-case basis. It will be also included in the next VE CD release.
Cheers!
Paweł