Carsten Aulbert wrote: > sorry to bother you such a thing, but I'm not getting anywhere right > now. I've a server with four NICs which are all powered by the e1000 > driver. Two are on the Supermicro main board and two are added via an > add-on card. It seems that I can only PXE boot from the two on-board > NICs while the install kernel sees the on-board only as eth2 and eth3.
if your add-in nics are e1000 server adapters they can be configured to PXE boot too. You have to enable option rom support in the BISO and the option rom itself. what does your dmesg log look like (serial console maybe?) during boot? Are you sure you don't need e1000e? You didn't mention your kernel version, or the device ID of the e1000 ports. > The kernel documentation says one should use the ether (or now better) > the netdev directive for changing the order of the built-in drivers, > but as this guy[1], I have not succeeded so far. For the ether > directive not all parameters were mandatory, if they are now for > netdev, how can I so, I guess the question is "why would you need to change the order?" our drivers don't use any of those parameters because we are a PCI device and that stuff can't be changed for PCI devices. More appropriate would be something that would let you pick a name for a particular BUS:DEVICE.FN notation. We don't implement the .init handler in our driver anyway. > find all the values? When 'entering the firmware' via CTRL+S I can get > the IRQ, the I/O address as well as the memory start address, but I > have no idea about the memory_end address. > kernel kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-faiinstall > append root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot,v3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 > ip=:::::eth0:dhcp FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot > FAI_ACTION=install console=tty0 why not just specify ip=:::::eth2:dhcp? ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
