On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 08:27, Stephan Wiesand <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 27, 2011, at 15:48, Randall Martin wrote: > >> I’m having trouble installing SL6 on a Dell PE1950 via PXE kickstart. > > Works for me: > > # dmidecode |grep Product > Product Name: PowerEdge 1950 > # lspci|grep Ethernet > 05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708 > Gigabit Ethernet (rev 11) > > >> The node boots and loads the installer, but I get a message “Waiting for >> NetworkManager to configure eth0” followed by the error “Network Error: >> There was an error configuring your network interface”. It looks like the >> bnx2 ethernet driver isn’t loaded. What is the procedure to add this driver >> to initrd in the install media? Would creating a driver update image that >> is referenced in the kickstart file be a more elegant solution? > > When we have trouble with PXE installs, it usually turns out that the switch > port was forgotten too be set to "portfast".
Or the 1950's BIOS needs to be updated. I had that with a couple of old 1950's which updating the BIOS fixed everything. > -- > Stephan Wiesand > DESY -DV- > Platanenallee 6 > 15738 Zeuthen, Germany > -- Stephen J Smoogen. "The core skill of innovators is error recovery, not failure avoidance." Randy Nelson, President of Pixar University. "Let us be kind, one to another, for most of us are fighting a hard battle." -- Ian MacLaren
