On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 09:05:08AM -0500, Steve Litster wrote: > System: IBM Blade HS20 : NIC Broadcom NetXtreme (bcm 5731). > > PXE boot works fine for the first stage, the kernel and intrd are > brought over no problem, however as the system loads and tries to get > its IP address via DHCP, I get the follwing: > > "DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 " > > Question: Is it falling back to lo becuase its not recognising the NIC > driver to fire up on eth0?
Yes, that is exactly what is happening. There are instructions on
systemimager.org for building a custom kernel that will be newer and support
that hardware during installation.
-Sean
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