You are correct. We are using e1000 cards that are built onto the motherboard of our IBM thinkcentres. Even though the systemimager kernel has the e1000 drivers built in (v4.x) these do not seem to work with our cards. On the head node we needed the latest driver version 5.xx before the NIC would load properly. At some point I'm going to have to rebuild the systemimager kernel.
Right now we have things working by plugging both NICS on the machines into the network (the other is a realtek that will be for our SAN). When it boots up it uses the e1000 for pxe booting and then successfully loads the realtek and uses that to download the image, then when it is all finished we have the final scripts setup both cards correctly and after the reboot the machines come up fine. It's sort of a strange way of doing things, but at this point I was more interested in seeing that this all works, rather than working on fine details of making it a smooth process.
Thanks for your input.
Cheers,
Chad J. Dupuis MIT Academic Computing
Jeremy Enos wrote:
Re-creating the image w/o multicasting shouldn't be necessary. Multicasting can be disabled using the MAC collection window, and hitting the "Configure DHCP" button again.
I recommend going with a static IP assignment when creating the image, but either way- if there are problems associated w/ that parameter, you wouldn't see them at this stage.
When a node boots, it does get it's IP twice. Once by PXE to download the boot image... the second time is by the boot image itself. If that is failing, it is most likely due to a strange issue with a network driver within the boot image. I've seen situations before where a NIC is detected just fine by the boot image, but can't DHCP properly. (certain 3com cards exhibited this)
What type of NIC are you using?
Jeremy
At 05:33 PM 4/16/2004, Bernard Li wrote:
Hi Chad:
I would re-create the image with multicasting=off - perhaps that is causing issues.
Also, how many nodes are you trying to install at once? Do the nodes have more than one nic or just one each?
Cheers,
Bernard
> -----Original Message----- > From: Chad J Dupuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 15:31 > To: Bernard Li > Subject: RE: [Oscar-users] DHCP Client failures after PXE Boot > > Hello Bernard, > > I'm not sure why it is asking again either... when I create > the client image I'm assuming I want IP Assignment Method = > DHCP; Multicasting= On; and Post Install Action = Reboot. > Our boot order is floppy,cd,network,harddrive > > > > Quoting Bernard Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hey Chad: > > > > Oh okay I didn't realize that you actually got it to pxe-boot. > > > > So your node pxe-boot, loaded the images and it just bombed > out with > > the message? I don't understand why it would try to get an > ip address > > again when it has already gotten one... > > > > Did you set your client nodes to reboot after it finishes imaging? > > And do you have 'network' as the first boot order now? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > > ________________________________ > > > > From: Chad Dupuis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 15:11 > > To: Bernard Li > > Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] DHCP Client failures after PXE Boot > > > > > > Yes, it's all setup up and running ok. If I watch > /var/log/messages > > I see that when the machines boots off the network it is given its > > appropriate address 192.168.0.2 (the server is .1) and then > the tftp > > messages show up and the client starts loading the image - > then later > > (the messages I sent before) it is asking for another address but I > > don't see anything in /var/log/messages after that? > > > > > > Cheers, > > > > -Chad > > """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > > Chad J. Dupuis - MIT Academic Computing > > Faculty Liaison Windows Specialist > > N42-040q - o:x3-1783 - c:617.201.6621 > > http://web.mit.edu/acs/windows/ > > """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" > > > > > > Bernard Li wrote: > > > > Hey Chad: > > > > On your headnode, did you set up dhcpd? There > is a button in that > > step > > to 'Set up DHCP server'. > > > > Give that a go. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Bernard > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Behalf Of > > Chad Dupuis > > Sent: Friday, April 16, 2004 14:49 > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: [Oscar-users] DHCP Client > failures after PXE Boot > > > > Hello, > > > > I now have oscar up and running and am > at the stage where I'm > > trying to get my clients to load the > image. The PXE boot > > fine and start downloading the image > and then I get this: > > > > start_network > > IP Address not set by local.cfg. I > will use DHCP. > > > > sleep 0: This is to give your switch > (if you're using one) > > time to recognize..... > > > > dhcpclient > > ..... > > > > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on > auto-negoitated partner > > ability 0000. > > Listening on LPF/eth0/00:40..... > > Sending on LPF/eth0/00:40...... > > Listing on LPF/lo/<null> > > Sending on LPF/lo/<null> > > Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net > > DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 > port 67 interval 5 ..., > > etc. > > > > Then, > > No DHCPOFFERS received. > > No working leases in persistent > database - sleeping. > > > > I couldn't configure the network > interface using DHCP.... > > > > > > Any ideas on why it cannot get an address here? > > > > -- > > Cheers, > > > > -Chad > > MIT Academic Computing > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > >
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