Hey Eugene: What is the model/make of your nic? Curious as to why the tg3 driver does not work...
So I guess if you PXE-BOOT right now it still couldn't detect the nic (and thus failed to get DHCPOFFER on lo?) If the stock RH9 kernel has support for your nic, then yeah I would suggest you go through the steps I sent you and manually try to build the files necessary for SIS to boot your node for imaging. There is a tool called mkbootpackage which Brian Finley wrote and it is supposed to make doing this a breeze, but so far people seem to be having problems with that... You can give that a shot though. Cheers, Bernard > -----Original Message----- > From: eugene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2004 8:31 > To: Bernard Li > Cc: eugene; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query > > Hello again, > > I have figured out where the problem is and what is going wrong. > The PXE kernel does indeed lack support for the BCM5700 range > of NICs Unfortunately the kernel you sent me does not work > either (It needs the BCM5700 driver, the tg3 driver doesnt > seem to be sufficient). I found another kernel from Jeremy > Enos by searching the list that does support my NIC, > unfortunately something else goes wrong when his ramdisk > image is mounted and I end up with a kernel panic similar to > the one reported > here: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ > msg03077.html > > I'm thinking I am going to have to compile my own kernel with > BCM5700 support in, or at least do something about the initrd.img. > Any advice? > > Thanks > > Eugene > > Bernard Li wrote: > > Hey Eugene: > > > > Can you look carefully at the error message which says "No > DHCPOFFERS > > received"? Does it say 'lo' or 'ethX'? My feeling is that the > > network driver wasn't even loaded for your client nodes. > > > > The kernel image which SIS use to boot up your client nodes for > > imaging does not contain the appropriate network drivers - > I have an > > image which Frank compiled a while back which works for the bcm5700 > > series and if you need it, just leave me a message. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of eugene > >>Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 9:29 > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: [Oscar-users] Yet another DHCP query > >> > >>Hi > >> > >>I think I have a vague idea of the answer to this one: > >>I have manged to get all the way to network booting my client node. > >>After loading the kernel and drivers, during the install > process the > >>client fails at "start network" with the following message: > >> > >>"No DHCPOFFERS received" > >> > >>What I dont understand is how it can load the kernel and the > >>autoinstall across the network, but fails to configure the network > >>card for the latter part of the install. It seems likely that the > >>driver initialization of the onboard broadCom BCM5700 is failing > >>despite the fact that the driver modules were included with > the chosen > >>kernel. > >> > >>Currently the following network drivers are being loaded, > why I dont > >>know: > >>Intel Pro/1000 > >>pcnet32.c > >>ns83820.c > >>sk98lin (the dlink module I had to install to get the second NIC on > >>the master node working) > >> > >>Might it have anything to do with the fact that the BCM5700 is > >>installed as eth1 on the master node, while it is eth0 on > the client? > >>Seems worth trying to swop them. > >> > >>Please tell me I dont have to recompile the kernel with the BCM5700 > >>driver. Also for some mysterious reason, the tg3 driver > does not work > >>on the master node and I have to use the bcm5700 for the > broadcom NIC. > >> > >>Thanks > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------- > >>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_id70&alloc_id638&op=click _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
