Hi Rich, Yes, I am using standard boot disk flavour and yes I would like to try your link. I did not try to test anything else yet except for this link http://www.revolutionlinux.com/downloads/OSCAR/Supermicro-P4SC8=P4SCi-en/
The problem with the link above is that those kernel and initrd.img are for Mandrake. The remedy in this link works fine, the node boots, gets the boot image from TFTP, gets to DHCP server, gets IP, boots, formats the drive but fails to boot from the harddrive afterwards. This is something that I expected since the kernel and initrd.img are for Mandrake. At least I know that the problem CAN be solved. So, now I have a choice either to continue to try with RedHat or to switch to Mandrake. I still have a couple of potential solutions suggested in the link below that I am going to try today http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=4831598&forum_id=1364 Pavel. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 3:50 AM To: Pavel A. Petukhov Subject: Re: [Oscar-users] RE: DHCP Client failures after PXE Boot Hi Pavel, Just a quick question here that might help with the installation problem... Are you still using the standard boot disk flavour? If so, I can send a link to a site which provides another flavour which I have used in the past to get the e1000 network cards working. Hope this can help, just let me know if you haven't tried this yet, thanks Rich ------------------------------- Richard Bruin PhD Student Department of Earth Sciences University of Cambridge Cambridge UK > We have exactly the same problem as Chad Dupuis. RedHat9.0 does not > recognize IntelGigabit ethernet cards (e1000) in our Supermicro 3.06 > Dual Xeon servers unless e1000-5.2.52 driver is installed. We can > install new e1000 driver on the master node and bring up the network > cards but we can not do the same trick with the computational nodes > since OSCAR does not generate an image that has the correct e1000 > driver built-in. As in Chad's case, the nodes PXE boot, then they get > the boot image from TFTP server, and then try either to get DHCP > address or to assign static ip and fail because there is simply no > eth0 or eth1 interface. Exactly the same happens if we generate a boot > disk instead of PXE boot. > > Can anybody suggest how to generate a RedHat9.0 boot image with the > correct updated e1000 driver that can be used by OSCAR or how to force > OSCAR to use the correct e1000 driver ? > > Pavel Petukhov > University of Illinois at Chicago > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. > >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one > installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and > evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users --------------------------------------------- Department of Earth Sciences University of Cambridge Downing Street Cambridge CB2 3EQ Phone: ( +44 ) 1223 333400 Fax: ( +44 ) 1223 333450 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to Linux, servers to mobile, InstallShield X is the one installation-authoring solution that does it all. Learn more and evaluate today! http://www.installshield.com/Dev2Dev/0504 _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
