Hi, We are also interested in either PXE or etherboot over IB. We also run LinuxBIOS. If anyone manages to get this working can you post some notes maybe a wiki or a howto.
thanks Rene Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare) wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Baxter >> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:29 AM >> To: openib-general@openib.org; Eli cohen >> Subject: Re: [openib-general] PXE + infiniband? >> >>>> There is an implementation of PXE for Mellanox's HCAs that >> can be found >>>> here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=494529 >>> Thanks for the tip >>> >>> I, too, am interested in this. >>> >>> Do you have a more direct link as I wandered around >> etherboot's project >>> site >>> and couldn't find anything IB-specific. >> >> I must have been having a 'special moment' before, because I >> couldn't find >> the mailing lists >> >> Here they are! >> >> http://sourceforge.net/search/?ml_name=etherboot-developers&ty >> pe_of_search=mlists&group_id=4233&words=infiniband > > I was able to follow the procedure outlined in Eli's README and I > achieved some mixed results. On one hand, lspci now shows "Expansion > ROM at ed700000 [disabled] [size=1M]" whereas it didn't indicate that > before ("disabled" means it's zeroed out, maybe?). The BIOS seems to > confirm the whole disabled thing since it doesn't list the HCA in the > boot priority list. > > After making this change, IPoIB seems to work via this HCA, but SRP > (initiation, anyways) no longer does. "ibsrpdm -c" no longer produces > any output, even though I can see the target via the ibnetdiscover. > Accessing the SRP target from another host on the fabric works fine. > > -Brian > > _______________________________________________ > openib-general mailing list > openib-general@openib.org > http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general > > To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list openib-general@openib.org http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
