The NICs (according to the tech specs) are Intel PRO/1000 XT Gigabit NICs, onboard on the PowerEdge 1750.

However, from dmesg:

Broadcom Gigabit Ethernet Driver bcm5700 with Broadcom NIC Extension (NICE) ver.
6.2.11 (05/16/03)
eth0: Broadcom BCM5704 1000Base-T found at mem fcf30000, IRQ 16, node addr 000bd
b940a4c
eth0: Broadcom BCM5704 Integrated Copper transceiver found
eth0: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q V
LAN ON, NAPI ON
eth1: Broadcom BCM5704 1000Base-T found at mem fcf10000, IRQ 17, node addr 000bd
b940a4d
eth1: Broadcom BCM5704 Integrated Copper transceiver found
eth1: Scatter-gather ON, 64-bit DMA ON, Tx Checksum ON, Rx Checksum ON, 802.1Q V
LAN ON, NAPI ON



As for the hard drive controller, it's an integrated dual-channel Ultra 320 SCSI controller. It seems to be backed up by hardware RAID (tho there is only 1 disk in the cluster nodes). It seems to load "megaraid" to interface with the hardware RAID.


Jason



On Dec 9, 2003, at 1:38 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:

Sorry... I was thinking that worked before, but wasn't sure. What type of NIC and hard drive controller do your 1750's use?

Jeremy

At 01:13 PM 12/9/2003, Jason Hlady wrote:
Thanks for the try...

I copied that kernel to /tftpboot, and copied that initrd to /tftpboot as well.

After gzipping initrd, and mv'ing it to initrd.img, the kernel started to boot, but then hit

read super_block: cant find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 10, size 4096)
read super_block: cant find a reiserfs filesystem on (dev 01:00, block 10, size 4096)
Kernel Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00


So either I did something wrong with the initrd, or it's not happy with my hardware. Hmm. Any further ideas? I freely admit that I'm not much of a kernel guy, so I might have just screwed this up.

Jason


On Dec 9, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Jeremy Enos wrote:


At 12:37 PM 12/9/2003, Lombard, David N wrote:
From: Jason Hlady; Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:29 AM
[deletia]
> The problem: when I go to install the nodes, the client (I presume
> this is the systeminstaller client) boots, but then times out on
> DHCPDISCOVER, checking only loopback and not finding eth0 or eth1.
> dhclient starts, and you get
>
> Listening on LPF/lo/<null>
> Sending on LPF/lo/<null>
> Sending on Socket/Fallback/fallback
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ..
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 on port ...
> No DHCPOFFERS received.


So, we know the dhcp server is properly configured for the client, as it
downloaded the systemimager kernel and initrd.


Shortly after the initrd started, dhclient ran, sadly it's listening on
the loopback interface, where it will never find a server...


The question is: why doesn't the systemimager kernel/initrd see the
device?

Because it's out of date. Try this kernel/initrd combo that I had to use on the 2650's w/ broadcom nics...
http://sponge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/~jenos/2650/


Jeremy

What NICs do you have in the clients?

--
David N. Lombard

My comments represent my opinions, not those of Intel.


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