Hi,
Unfortunately, Oscar currently doesn't use Sali and I didn't found any sali
rpm or sali.spec file (for rpm building).
I've made a patch to current systemimager so igb driver is enabled in netboot
kernel
After testing, the netboot is fixed.
Olivier.
Le jeudi 03 mars 2011 12:24:51 Dennis Stam a écrit :
> Oliver,
>
> On 2011-03-03 11:22, Olivier LAHAYE wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > As part of oscar deployment, I'm trying to use systemimager (svn=5510)
> > to boot my HP Proliant DL165 G7. Unfortunately, after pxe has booted,
> > the rcS in initrd fails to detect the 2 dual gigabit network adapter.
> > It loops on lo0 and ib{0,1}
> >
> > Looking at systemimager-x86_64initrd_template-4.2.0-0.1svn5510.el5 and
> > /usr/share/systemimager/boot/x86_64/standard/config it seems that:
> > # CONFIG_IGB is not set
> >
> > Thus, despite this kernel version supports this hardware, it fails to
> > see it. Exact hardware is NC362i (82576) Intel dual gigabit adapter:
> > vendorid:8086 prodid:10c9
> >
> > That would be cool if that could be changed (or/and kernel updated) so
> > all new HP servers could be deployed without requiring UYOK.
>
> That was our thoughts also, so we created a fork for the kernel and initrd.
> Currently I'm busy with the new release 1.4.0 and the current trunk version
> ( 1.4.0-rc ) has been tested on the following systems:
>
> - PowerEdge m600, m610, m710, 1950, 1850
> - SuperMicro X7DBT
> - SUN X4500
> - HP DL2x170h G6, DL160G6, SE2210, XW8200
>
> SALI uses the latest udev so all hardware detection is done automaticly. I
> just created a 64 bit version of SALI and shall post this one on our ftp (
> we already using this version for out systems ).
>
> ftp://ftp.sara.nl/pub/sali/sali-x86_64-1.4.0-rc.tar.gz
>
> You have to change some settings in your environment ( dhcp and master
> script ) before you can use SALI. Because for some tools ( parted for
> example ) are behaving differently due to a major version change.
>
> Please also check this page:
> https://subtrac.sara.nl/oss/sali/wiki/SaliUsage.
>
> > Best regards.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dennis
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Olivier LAHAYE
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--- patches/linux.x86_64.config.orig 2011-03-03 11:41:43.229518018 +0100
+++ patches/linux.x86_64.config 2011-03-03 11:41:55.876455535 +0100
@@ -885,7 +885,7 @@
CONFIG_E1000=y
CONFIG_E1000E=y
# CONFIG_IP1000 is not set
-# CONFIG_IGB is not set
+CONFIG_IGB=y
# CONFIG_IGBVF is not set
CONFIG_NS83820=y
CONFIG_HAMACHI=y
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