Both 1) The initrd created by si_prepareclient doesn't include the firmware, so I've added it to /lib/firmware and the initrd by hand. I think this is a because of a missing script on my systems. /usr/share/initramtool/hook/firmware.sh or something like that. I'll test it and report back. 2) During the imaging of the new box everything boot find but the kernel never loads the firmware. If I load the firmware by hand and the the autoinstall script everything is fine. So I zeroed into on hotplug as the process loading the bnx2 module, specifically the pci.rc script and according to all the docs I can find hotplug should be called again to load the driver firmware calling the firmware.agent script. So I added some basic "Got Here" debugging output and it turns out firmware.agent never gets called.
I'm not too concerned about this now that I know I just have to build static kernels. The systems I'm image are similar enough that I can build a single static kernel that works on all of them. Thanks, Derek On Dec 12, 2009, at 1:37 AM, Bernard Li wrote: > Hi Derek: > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Derek Harkness <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Thanks tried the stand si 4.1.6 kernel and it does work. It was the >> UYOK kernel and initrd created by prepareclient that didn't work. The >> problem seems to stem from the fact I'm imaging a debian system that >> doesn't compile the bnx2 firmware into the kernel. It still seem odd >> that the /etc/hotplug/firmware.agent never gets called. > > Which step are you talking about? During imaging or after imaging is > done and the OS (Debian) is being booted for the first time? > > Cheers, > > Bernard > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Return on Information: > Google Enterprise Search pays you back > Get the facts. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev > _______________________________________________ > sisuite-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
