Hi all, Brandeburg, Jesse wrote: > > if your add-in nics are e1000 server adapters they can be configured to PXE > boot too. You have to enable option rom support in the BISO and the option > rom itself.
I don't see these cards in the BIOS right now only the onboard ones. I've enabled everything I could think of which hinted for external cards. Also don't see the option rom advertised during start-up like the first two (Press CTRL+S to enter..._. Is there a tool, which I can use to tell the driver to enable the option rom? > > what does your dmesg log look like (serial console maybe?) during boot? Are > you sure you don't need e1000e? You didn't mention your kernel version, or > the device ID of the e1000 ports. I don't have any device id right now, but try to find that out soon. The install kernel is an oldish 2.6.23. >> kernel kernel/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-faiinstall >> append root=/dev/nfs >> nfsroot=/srv/fai/nfsroot,v3,tcp,rsize=32768,wsize=32768 >> ip=:::::eth0:dhcp FAI_FLAGS=verbose,sshd,createvt,reboot >> FAI_ACTION=install console=tty0 > > why not just specify ip=:::::eth2:dhcp? Yes (found that one also out myself after getting rid of some self-imposed blindness), but the install kernel only sees eth0 and eth1 (which are both on the add-on card, verified with plugging in a cable while it was searching for DHCP server and dmesg told me yes, that's eth0 and yes that's eth1), when specifying eth2 or eth3 I get a kernel panic since it cannot mount the root file system because the device is unknown. So right now, I have the lose-lose situation where I cannot PXE boot from the add-on card (yet) and I don't have the on-board NICs in the install kernel. A possible work-around^Whack would be to use two network connections during installation, but that's really hacky. If you know of a tool to activate PXE on the add-on NICs please let me know. I'll try to find out the IDs now. Cheers Carsten ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list E1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel
