On 5 aug 2010, at 20:29, Patrick Nolan wrote: > Bas van der Vlies wrote: >> On 04-08-10 21:57, Patrick Nolan wrote: >>> Tristam MacDonald wrote: >>>> On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Patrick Nolan >>>> <patrick.no...@stanford.edu<mailto:patrick.no...@stanford.edu>> wrote: >>>> >>>> I tried capturing the boot messages by echoing them out a serial port. >>>> (The AMI BIOS allows that.) It works up to a point, but the output >>>> quits when the kernel boots. >>>> >>>> >>>> Did you also tell your *kernel* to output over the console? If my memory >>>> serves correctly, you need to add something like console=ttyS0,57600 to >>>> the APPEND line in your pxelinux.cfg/<whatever>. >>>> >>> Aha! That did the trick. I'm constantly learning new things. >>> >>> Now I can get down to debugging. The relevant messages are below. >>> This appears to confirm my suspicion that the kernel doesn't have the >>> necessary ethernet driver (igb for Intel 82576 controller) in place. >>> Is it necessary to compile a custom kernel, or can this be done by >>> configuration? If the latter, is it an OSCAR configuration or a System >>> Imager configuration? >>> >> >> You can try the kernel/initrd from https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali. It >> should support the old systemimager scripts. igb is supported by this setup. >> >> > Thanks. It looks interesting. Unfortunately the web page says that it > needs a kernel version 2.6.27 or higher. I'm working with Centos 5, > which uses 2.6.18. I'm not prepared to deal with the problems of a > custom kernel.
Just to be clear. This requirement is only for the udev that sali uses. The sali kernel/initrd is only used for installation. It has nothing to do with your version of centos kernel. -- Bas van der Vlies b...@sara.nl ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ sisuite-users mailing list sisuite-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/sisuite-users
