There's some progress, but it's not solved yet. To recap, when I do a net installation, the kernel boots and then some stuff happens too fast to follow. It does DHCPLISTEN for a while on an infiniband port (ib0) and the loopback port (lo). That times out and it all comes to nothing.
This morning I pulled the infiniband card out of the client, and it quit listening on ib0. It still listens to lo, but I'm encouraged. This is the first thing I have done which had any visible effect at all. After googling some old postings on this list, I began to get the impression that the network behavior after the kernel boot is influenced by files in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/. I did some things there which also caused some changes in the results. First, I edited "default" to include the device, netmask, broadcast and gateway IPs to the kernel boot parameters. I also set ETHER_SLEEP to 40, perhaps to allow the ethernet switch to catch up. The result was that "start_network" tells me "IP address not set with pre-boot settings". Then "No such device". I don't understand that part. Then I created a file 01-00-30-48-fe-46-32 just for this client. I added the IP address, so the kernel append line looks like APPEND initrd=initrd.img root=/dev/ram SKIP_LOCAL_CFG=y ETHER_SLEEP=40 DEVICE=eth0 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 BROADCAST=192.168.0.25 GATEWAY=192.168.0.100 ramdisk_blocksize=1024 ramdisk_size=80000 Now it gets to SystemImager, which tells me "Your autoinstall has failed." The specific error message scrolls off the screen. I speculate that the kernel isn't prepared to deal with the ethernet interface. The head node, which is very similar hardware, has these lines in /etc/modprobe.conf alias eth0 igb alias eth1 igb I wonder if there's some way to make this happen for the client when it boots. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Palm PDK Hot Apps Program offers developers who use the Plug-In Development Kit to bring their C/C++ apps to Palm for a share of $1 Million in cash or HP Products. Visit us here for more details: http://p.sf.net/sfu/dev2dev-palm _______________________________________________ Oscar-users mailing list Oscar-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/oscar-users
