John Summerfield wrote:
Tim Edwards wrote:
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
The obvious (to me) workaround is to install a new NIC, at least for the
install.
It might also be worth trying to boot a live CD (is CentOS4 available?)
http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/livecd/
There is both a SL 4.3 and the latest SL 4.7.
Both worth a try. SL 4.3 to see if it really isn't supported in SL 4.3,
and SL 4.7 to see if it's been fixed.
Troy
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