NFS as root fs: net.eth0 kills NFS (and hangs system)

[Kobboi]

I have an NFS mounted by the kernel as root filesystem. This works and the first part of the baselayout scripts do their thing. Then net.eth0 is run, which probably brings eth0 down, which kills the NFS mount, locking my system. Setting config_eth0=( "null" ) does not help.

Shouldn't this work? I saw a 2004 bugzilla entry about something similar, but it was marked as fixed.

[richard.scott]

Hi,

Booting over NFS works fine on Gentoo.

You will need to remove net.eth0 from both your udev and boot scripts so its not automatically started as this does kill the connection and breaks things.

Your net.eth0 needs to always be up for the system to get to the NFS server

Rich

[Kobboi]

Yes, but the old bug report seemed to indicate that the scripts were able to figure out those things themselves.

I added "!net.eth0" to some variable in /etc/conf.d/rc and that worked.