Paolo Supino wrote / napísal(a):
On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 5:52 PM, Marco Fretz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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hi,
we had the same problem with newer HP pcs and servers (broadcom nics).
pxe works well on broadcom, the install not. doesn't matter if you're
using kickstart or manual install.
the problem was in centos 4.2. after updating the install
environment to
4.5 the problem was gone... so it was a driver issue! the install
kernel
is not exactly the normal linux kernel i think.
if anaconda just says that it cannot find install image, etc. the
system
has no connectivity at this time.
hope this is helpful...
bests
marco
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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 3:07 PM, Romeo Ninov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov
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> On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate
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> Paolo Supino wrote:
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> > 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup
> configuration
> screen with
> > the source website (in IP) and CentOS
directory as I
> entered
> them in the
> > pxeconfiguration file and as it appears in
the kickstart
> configuration file
> > and all I have to do is press the 'OK' button to
> continue the
> installation
> > to a successful completion.
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> If that's the case the next most likely culprit is
>
> > url --url http://192.168.11.1/source
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> Just because the PXE boot loader can download the
> kickstart
> config does not mean that the installation process
> will work
> with that NIC.
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> Also I've had lots of broadcom systems not
work with
> kickstart over
> the years, it's not uncommon for newer systems
to have
> newer
> revs of the chipsets and those revs not being
> supported by the
> installer.
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> But it sounds like in your case it does work, so I
> would look
> at the url above, as it likely is the cause of the
> problem.
> Check
> the http access logs on the server for 404s and
> similar errors.
>
> nate
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> Hi Nate
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> After figuring what I was doing wrong (see
previous reply
> ...) I started going through each of my systems
in order to
> boot them and install CentOS 5.2 on each. For the
most
> part it
> works, but only for the most part? Because once
in a few
> boots
> (not machine specific) anaconda stops and either
asks me what
> interface it needs to configure or fails to load
'stage2.img'
> from the web server on 192.168.11.1
<http://192.168.11.1> <http://192.168.11.1>
> <http://192.168.11.1>
> <http://192.168.11.1> ... All cables are good
cables. The
> network switch is a Cisco 3750G with no
configuration)
> and all
> the NICs are broadcom with firmware 3.8.9.
<http://3.8.9.>
> <http://3.8.9.> <http://3.8.9.>
> <http://3.8.9.> Can you throw a guess where the
problem might
> be lying (I hate inconsistencies)?
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> Have you check apache logs for something. Check also
the server
> messages
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> Hi Romeo
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> Yes I did, and nothing shows up in either access_log or
> error_log :-(
> I just had a node that stopped asking me for IP
configuration
> (twice) and only on the second time (checked on the
server using
> tcpdump) did it actually try to contact the server to
retrieve
> network configuration continue and it successfully retrieved
> 'stage2.img' from the web server :-(
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> Paolo, what about DHCP or bootp servers. Check the logs,
flush ARP
> cache from server(s)
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> Hi Romeo
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> The more systems I boot the more I'm starting to feel that it's
> hardware problem related ... I just booted a system in which the
ELOM
> says that NIC0 has 1 MAC address, but when I boot the system I
saw on
> the network a different MAC address altogether ...
> I'm checking at the lowest level: on the wire (using tcpdump)
so if
> nothing shows in the capture I'm sure I won't find anything in
the logs :-(
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> --
> TIA
> Paolo
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Hi Marco
Thanx for the email. I've been debugging this problem for a few days
and a few installs before I posted the first email in this thread I
started sniffing the network interface on the server (dhcp, tftp, http
are all on the same computer) and I noticed that no communication
reaches the server between the PXE load and the retrieval error (and I
think I wrote about it in my original post). Some people suggested
that it might be that Linux gets confused in the interfaces (the Sun
X2200 M2 has 4 NICs), which I find hard to believe (Linux kernel is
old enough and probably got rid of these kind of bugs a long time
ago). In some of the failures the kernel loaded, retrieved the
kickstart configuration file and than failed to retrieve 'stage2.img'
(again nothing appeared on the wire). I have a sneaky feeling that the
kickstart process assumes a lot of basic facts and doesn't do
any/enough sanity checking. Right now I need to get this cluster up
and running (I'm already 2 weeks behind schedule). After it's up I
will try to debug the process.
The situation got me so aggravated that I was contemplating
resurrecting my old private distro (not going to do that) that does
things in a much simpler way.
Paolo
Unfortunately CentOS/RHEL have really problem in process of loading
modules, especialy in case of two identical NICs, they change on random
way. I personaly use this way to mitigate the problem: in
/etc/modprobe.conf add 1st modprobe for NIC on 1st place and second on
last place in the file and after reboot i have always NIC->eth? relation
in place
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