Hi Herb, > I finally had a chance to boot into rescue mode. It did activate the > network with the built in Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 Dual Port Gigabit > Ethernet NIC as em1 instead of eth0. > > What can I do about this to get it to install on this dell server?
Please try this, as I would be interested to know if it works: 1.) Edit /lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules and commend out the Dell whitelist line. 2.) Remove /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and /etc/udev/rules.d/90*.rules if they exist. 3.) Edit /boot/grub/grub.conf The Kernel lines in it look a bit like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root noapic At the end of your kernel line(s) put this: biosdevname=0 So taking the above example it would look like this: kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-308.4.1.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/root noapic biosdevname=0 The biosdevname line got wrapped by my email client. It goes into the same line as "kernel /vmlinuz ...." 4.) Reboot and see what it does. Also check "ls /sys/class/net", "ifconfig -a" and "dmesg" after the reboot to see what they report about the network interfaces. All in all this is a bit frustrating. I do not have a Dell for testing and I already tried to walk someone who had a similar problem with a Dell 710 through doing this. We tried various approaches and the above one *should* possibly work, but it didn't. -- With best regards Michael Stauber _______________________________________________ Blueonyx mailing list Blueonyx@mail.blueonyx.it http://mail.blueonyx.it/mailman/listinfo/blueonyx