Hi again, Here's a message I posted previously which has helped to get the intel e1000 cards working:
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=7530696 note though that the url listed within that message seems to have been cropped by the list software and should actually read: http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/msg00350.html I hope that helps, let me know if you need any more help. Hopefully these instructions should work ok for you though. Rich -------------------------- Richard Bruin PhD Student Department of Earth Sciences University of Cambridge Cambridge On Thu, 2004-06-03 at 16:00, Pavel A. Petukhov wrote: > 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
