On Tue, Feb 07, 2006 at 03:24:21PM -0500, Jan Schaumann wrote:
> nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
> nfs_boot: timeout...
> nfs_boot: timeout...
> nfs_boot: timeout...

This is the first time that the kernel itself talks to the network.

Check with tcpdump that the request packets make it out.

Maybe for some reason the kernel can not properly use the network interface?
Maybe it has interrupt problems and does not notice the answers?

Martin