William Kenworthy <billk@(protected):

>
> I am using "config_eth0=( "noop" )" as suggested in the howto but the
> network still seems to startup, getting a new dhcp lease with a blank
> rootpath=, after which init fails:
>

Does it work if you don't start net.eth0 with the init scripts? That
is how I got my diskless nodes to boot and they all have network
access without problems:

rc-update show | grep net.eth0
       net.eth0 |


Cheers,
Roger
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