HI, Thanks for figuring out the problem and the fix, I opened xCAT bug https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3524563&group_id=208749&atid=1006945 to track this, we will try to recreate this problem in our env and work on the fix, and integrate the fix into xCAT code stream.
Thanks,
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Mailing list error with SLES 11 SP2
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The fix is actually in the init script that xCAT puts in the
initrd-stateless. udevd is started after the modules load but killed before
the interface is brought up (see unaltered code below). udevd basically
needs to be left running until the interface is brought up (conceivably
moved after the netstart $IFACE). I went ahead and added the Issue is if
udevd isn't running and the interface needs the firmware network is going
to stop working.
Unaltered init:
# Start udev to find devices attached to node
# This script can be found in /lib/mkinitrd
echo "Creating device nodes with udev"
/sbin/udevd --daemon
if [ -f "/sbin/udevadm" ]
then
/sbin/udevadm trigger
/sbin/udevadm settle --timeout=10
fi
sleep 60
killall -9 udevd
Fixed init:
export IFACE=$IFACE
shell
/usr/bin/touch /var/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-$IFACE.info
netstart $IFACE
while ! ifconfig | grep inet; do
echo -e "${RED}Failed to acquire address, retrying ${RESET}"
sleep 1
netstart $IFACE
done
ip addr add dev lo 127.0.0.1/8
ip link set lo up
cd /
killall -9 udevd
--- On Sat, 5/5/12, John Simon <tzz...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: John Simon <tzz...@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [xcat-user] bnx2 firmeware error with SLES 11 SP2
> To: xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net
> Date: Saturday, May 5, 2012, 1:03 PM
> I upgraded to xCAT 2.7.1 and am
> building a SLES 11 SP2 image but when I boot I get the
> following error messages after the kernel and initrd are
> pulled down:
>
> bnx2: Can't load firmware file
> "bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw"
> err, eth0: ioctl SIOCSIFFLAGS: No such file or directory
>
> I used the following to generate the image:
>
> genimage -i eth0 -n tg3,bnx2 -o sles11.2 -p compute.sles11
>
> And I did verify the firmware is in the initrd:
>
> # cpio -it < initrd-stateless |grep
> bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw
> lib/firmware/3.0.13-0.27-default/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1a.fw
> 24587 blocks
>
>
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