Hey Kyle-
pcie_aspm=off got me to installing a Fedora 17 "minimal" install (does
210 packages) to a pair of 2.5" drives I've got in there w/ the HD mount
kit. I set it up with 3 x RAID-1 partitions for boot, swap, and root
filesystem (probably don't need swap, but plenty of disk space).
I'm suspecting this will succeed which will be good.
Since aspm appears to be power management related stuff I really don't
care about power with this -- it's to be a firewall and forward packets
all day! Something I read was saying performance should be fine w/o
aspm enabled.
Thanks for the tip.
In case anyone else runs into it -- when pxebooting on fedora 17 (unlike
earlier releases) you have to specify a repo path on the kernel cmdline
or you'll boot up and get a "dracut: unable to process initqueue" error
and dropped to the shell. So a successful pxelinux.cfg directory setup
for my box looks like this (note the repo= line and the pcie_aspm=off)
where I downloaded the kernel and ramdisk from a mirror and named them
with the .f17 extensions:
DEFAULT f17
LABEL f17
KERNEL vmlinuz.f17
APPEND initrd=initrd.img.f17 pcie_aspm=off
repo=http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/17/Fedora/i386/os/
console=ttyS0,115200 text
I obviously also upped my console serial speed to 115,200 bps.
The vnc graphical install is working very well for this.
Just need to now figure out how to install grub2 on 2nd MBR if the
install doesn't automagically do it and test out deliberate disk failure
so I'll know I can replace a disk down the road and know that it will
boot with either disk. I'm using 2 x Western digital Scorpio black 160
gig 2.5" drives 7200 RPM.
-Eric Malkowski
On 07/05/2012 10:04 PM, Kyle Brantley wrote:
> On 7/5/2012 5:53 PM, Eric Malkowski wrote:
>> Hey all-
>>
>> Got a shiny new net6501 I'm trying to install Fedora on. Tried Fedora
>> 17 and ran into this problem:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=625776
>>
>> Towards the end of the bug report is a reference to this mailing list:
>>
>> "It looks like this is also impacting RHEL (CentOS).
>>
>> http://lists.soekris.com/pipermail/soekris-tech/2011-October/017822.html
>>
>> The piece of hardware mentioned in that thread (the Soekris net6501)
>> has four 82574 NICs, and is headless. PXE is the primary method of
>> installation, so this prevents it from being installed at all. Even
>> if installed via an alternative method, then I wind up with four
>> useless NICs."
>>
> Yup, that's my comment.
>
>> It is fixed in 3.5-rc1 (see tail end of bug report) and there is a
>> rawhide kernel RPM for it, but rawhide doesn't seem to have any
>> initrd.img built up to go with that kernel (the usual "images" directory
>> to get pxe stuff isn't in the download area for Fedora as far as I
>> can tell.
> They don't typically rebuild the install packages for these types of
> bugfixes in Fedora -- I'd expect to see it in F18.
>> If no one's gotten fedora working, anyone have any success with CentOS?
>> As you can tell I'm a Fedora / Redhat fan.
> The RHEL 6.3 release notes indicates that the relevant driver (e1000e)
> was updated, so I hope that the fix was included with this. Note that
> booting with pcie_aspm=off allows you to install CentOS6 / RHEL6 / etc
> with the 6.0-6.2 install media, but I have high hopes that the 6.3
> kernel and initrd will fix it properly.
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>>
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