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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Edward Grace wrote: | | |>Dear all, |> |>I have had the most horrific difficulties trying to get an nforce2 motherboard |>with built in LAN to network boot. While I have the PXE bootloader working |>fine, I am having a nightmare trying to get the root directory mounted over |>NFS. |> |>I have compiled the kernel appropriately (2.4.20, and have tried both stock |>kernel and RedHat varient), it loads up pulls in the ramdisk then (naturally) |>falls over... | | | "falls over..." What does that mean ?
Stops working. The entire machine, that is. It's a pretty serious flaw. My brother recently got a machine with a motherboard that has the builton nforce2 chipset. Problems from the get-go.
| | We'd be glad to help you diagnose your nfs root mounting problems, but | we need a bit more to go on. | | First, try using the standard LTSP supplied kernel.
Unfortunately, this will almost surely not work. Period. You have to download and use NVidia's binary module for the chipset. It appears that there are IRQ conflicts with their driver, though, or something.
| Let's see what | kind of problems you have. If there are errors, tell us what they | say. | | Also, look in /var/log/messages and /var/log/secure for clues. | | Run: showmount -e | | to see if the directory you are trying to mount is actually exported, | and pay close attention to the IP addresses that are allowed to mount, | to make sure your client is in that range. | | Make sure your workstation is listed either in the /etc/hosts file, | or is setup properly in dns, with the reverse mapping setup properly.
One thing you might try (that we had great success with) is that whenever your machine locks up (for my brother, the mouse would stop working and the keyboard and X, etc.), ping it. You might try a constant ping while it's booting up once you know its IP address. You might put the MAC address in DHCP to always give it the same address while testing, and ping that constantly. It seems to get the IRQ working and allows the kernel to keep going. Otherwise, it's like the kernel is sitting there waiting on the nforce2 to do something and it keeps the kernel from doing anything else. The mouse stopped working because it was plugged into the USB port which is run by the nforce2 chipset which also does the network (and sound, I think).
|>What I want to try and do is to get the network card up and running using the |>ramdisk, then see if I can pivot_root. I have successfully tested the driver |>(nvnet.o) which I compiled for this kernel. |> |>Since this projects main call seems to be network booting, could any of you |>offer me some advice as to how to proceed. I assume you have seen every |>possible way of getting something to boot over the network. |> |>I'd really appriciate the help, this is starting to drive me mad,
My brother eventually just disabled the onboard NIC and put a 3Com in its place. :)
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