Hi there, I have had the same problem recently with the e1000 network card and booting from the boot floppy. The following link that I found at the time provides a kernel that you will need to make your boot floppy with. This will then allow the machine to detect your card and copy the data across.
http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00350.html Once you have unzipped the file referred to by the above message, you will need to copy the boel_binaries.tar.gz into the standard boot flavour (/usr/share/systemimager/boot/i386/standard) for the correct kernel to be copied across to continue the installation process. (also you will need to remake the boot disk using the new flavour installed from the link above). I assume you realise that you will need to change the image produced earlier in the oscar installation process so that it will use the correct module for the ethernet card. This will not affect how the things are copied across to the compute nodes, but will affect their booting and operation afterwards! Hope that helps, let me know if this is not clear at all. Richard --------------------- Richard Bruin Department of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge UK. On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 08:30, Linus Yong wrote: > Hi All, > > I have seen some information about this in the old posting but I still can't > figure out how to make it work. The situation is as follows: > > 1) I have a server with on-board Intel Gigabit adapter. > 2) Installed RH9 / Oscar3.0 on the server node with Intel e1000 5.2.16 as > module. Server node working fine. Installation went well until step 6 - > Setup Networking. I have sucessfully get the MAC of my client node, etc. > Client node boots up, get the initrd.img then cannot contact the DHCP > server. > > I have tried these: > > 1) copy the e1000.o module to initrd.img (with mounting loop back > filesystem, compress back with cramfs, etc, etc) and put int insmod e1000.o > into INSMOD_COMMANDS. Result is I got a whole list of unresolved symbols (I > am guessing that it is the kernel version problem). > > 2) tried as > http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=3920507&forum_id=1364 > and got a kernel panic that couldn't mount root filesystem. > > Any pointer is very much appreciated. Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials > Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of > GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system > administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
