I got it to work! Well it starts to load the autoinstall scripts at least.
I had download, patch and compile a 2.4.24 kernel it to get BCM5700 support, which turned out to be easier than I thought.
> What is the model/make of your nic? Curious as to why the tg3 driver > does not work...
The make is Broadcom 5788 and its intergrated into the Shuttle SB75G2 mobo.
> So I guess if you PXE-BOOT right now it still couldn't detect the nic > (and thus failed to get DHCPOFFER on lo?)
Not any more!
> 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.
Will try this if I fail to progress from here.
My current situation: It downloads the the autoinstall scripts and then fails when it tries to partition the client HDD:
"Partitionaing /dev/hda ... Old partition table for /dev/hda: Error: Could not stat device /dev/hda - No such file or directory. parted -s -- /dev/hda mklabel msdos || shellout Error: Could not stat device /dev/hda - No such file or directory.
write variable " and then the rote message
My disk is a Maxtor S-ATA, with a Intel ICH5-R onboard controller. Maybe my boel_binaries need fixing too? At least I've made a little bit of progress.
Thanks
Eugene
> 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
>>>>
>>>>
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