Hi
We've been happily & gratefully using systemimager (v3.2.0-4) for some time now
to manage system installs & updates for several linux clusters.
We're now adding new cluster boxes that are built using the SuperMicro PDSMi
motherboard, which includes 2 Intel 82573 gigabit ethernet interfaces, an
IDE/ATA hard disk, and Pentium-4 CPU.
We prepared for autoinstalling with systemimager on these boxes in our usual
way:
o Custom configured a FC4 golden client on one of these PDSMi boxes.
o Installed our usual set of client side sis RPMs on the golden client:
rpm -Uvh \
perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm \
systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm \
systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm \
systemimager-client-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
o Our systemimager image server (running FC4) has the following RPMs installed:
perl-XML-Simple-1.08-1.noarch.rpm
perl-AppConfig-1.52-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-i386boot-standard-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-common-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemimager-server-3.2.0-4.noarch.rpm
systemconfigurator-2.0.9-1.noarch.rpm
o Successfully tested golden client network communications through its
82573 interfaces with the image server, including dhcp IP assignment.
o Successfully ran the usual prepareclient on the golden client
o Successfully pulled the golden client's image to the image server
using getimage.
o Ensured that PXE network booting was set up on the image server
under /tftpboot. [The imager server is also the dhcp server.]
o Set up dhcp server entries for fixed-address IP assignment and PXE
network autoinstalling for a fresh PDSMi box that does not yet have
an OS installed.
o Set up network booting through one of the 82573 interfaces in the
BIOS of the fresh PDSMi box.
o Ensured that the systemimager rsyncd server is running on the
image server.
o Booted the fresh PDSMi box.
o Watched the dhcp server successfully assign the expected IP to the
fresh PDSMi box. [I.e. PXE booting within the 82573 ethernet
interface successfully communicates with the dhcp server.]
o Watched pxelinux successfully boot across the network. [I.e.
the dhcp server is successfully handing off network booting
to tftpd.]
o Watched the systemimager kernel download and then take control of
the client PDSMi box, successfully detecting the IDE/ATA disk. But
it then stalled when it tried to configure the ethernet interface.
Manually trying a few ifconfig commands from the breakout shell
indicated that no eth0 or eth1 devices were known to the systemimager
kernel.
o Replaced the standard systemimager kernel under /tftpboot with
Peter Mueller's kernel, repeated the client autoinstall boot,
and again the ethernet interface was not detected.
So it appears that I need a systemimager kernel that supports the
intel 82573 ethernet interface and is compatible with systemimager
v3.2.0-4. Does such a kernel exist, and if yes, where can I obtain
it?
[I've been reading about UYOK under newer systemimager version(s),
but it is not yet clear to me whether or not this is available now
in a stable version of systemimager. And since everything except the
kernel is working fine with our current systemimager 3.2.0-4 setup,
it would be desirable to not change anything except the autoinstall
kernel if that is possible.]
Following is the output from the lspci command for the PDSMi box,
showing the presence of the intel 82573 ethernet interfaces:
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 Memory Controller Hub (rev 81)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation E7230 PCI Express Root Port (rev 81)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 01)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 5 (rev 01)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GR/GH/GHM (ICH7 Family) PCI Express
Port 6 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev
01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev
01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev
01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev
01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GB/GR (ICH7 Family) LPC Interface
Bridge (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
(rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 6702PXH PCI Express-to-PCI Bridge A (rev
09)
02:00.1 PIC: Intel Corporation 6700/6702PXH I/OxAPIC Interrupt Controller A
(rev 09)
04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573E Gigabit Ethernet
Controller (Copper) (rev 03)
05:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
0a:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage XL (rev 27)
Thanks,
Bill McKie
NASA Ames Research Center
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