Robin, Thanks a lot for your reply. Sounds that it can help a lot. I'll let you know as soon as I have the time to do some tests.
Just to clarify. If I have understood well you say that if when I want to reimage a node I pull the power cord, then plug it in, then boot, it should work. Have I understood well? Thanks again, Paul On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Robin Humble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 01:03:34AM +0200, Salva . wrote: >>nodes they seem to find the entry point for PXE but they never boot. > ... >>The hardware is a supermicro X7DWT. > > our X7DWT-INF boards (with SIMSO+) have a BIOS/hardware bug which means > that we need e1000 driver version >= 7.6.15.4 before they will reboot > reliably. > > the symptoms look to be similar to yours - the PXE server sees the > requests from the node and replies, but the node never recognises the > replies and so never gets any further. > > the problem goes away if the SIMSO+ (BMC management card) is removed > from the system, or can be worked-around if you never 'reboot' or > 'shutdown' Linux, but instead always IPMI reset or on/off the board. > also unplugging the power from the board lets it PXE boot correctly the > time after that. > > hope that helps. > > cheers, > robin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft > Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. > http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ > _______________________________________________ > Oscar-users mailing list > Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
