Re: [Linaro-validation] Using ip=dhpc is evil

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012, Zygmunt Krynicki wrote:

I'm trying to use my snowball for development testing. It seems that having kernel command line specify ip=dhpc is evil as that makes all of the userspace network configuration not to happen.

When this happens ifup scripts are not executed and ntpdate is never invoked. I have not debugged this correctly yet but that seems to be the case for me.

ip=dhcp is typically meant for NFS root, or sometimes when you're just starting an initrd and would like the kernel to configure the network interface for you, but it's usually a bad idea for anything else; would be best to stop passing this and use the network setup of the rootfs.