We're trying to kickstart SL4.3 on a Sunfire x4140 which appears to have inbuilt-NICs which use an Nvidia chipset. The problem is that although the NIC's ROM manages to boot off the network, once anaconda is started it fails to see any network devices. I can see in the messages that the forcedeth kernel module is loaded.
I found a RHEL bug that suggests that the NICs are detected as bridge devices and not plain ethernet NICs: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=156688 We need to use SL 4.3 (due to internal application certifications) so can anyone suggest a possible workaround for this? Has anyone installed SL/Centos/RHEL 4.x on this server before? Thanks Tim Edwards
