Ubuntu 14.04.2 on xCAT 2.10.
It's pretty obvious the issue, if you look at the init script that xCAT
creates for the initrd, it does a blind "insmod" without ever checking
if there's extra parameters in the cmdline.
On 11.01.2016 20:41, Xiao Peng Wang wrote:
> Which OS were you deploying? And which xCAT version you are running? (lsxcatd
> -a)
> For rh and sles, xCAT is using dracut to generate the initrd. We can take a
> look what xCAT can do when call dracut to genereate initrd.
>
> Thanks
> Best Regards
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> ----- Original message -----
> From: Russell Jones <russell-l...@jonesmail.me>
> To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time
> Date: Tue, Jan 12, 2016 7:38 AM
>
> Just an update. Manually modifying the init script to "insmod ixgbe.ko
> allow_unsupported_sfp=1" allowed the node to boot.
>
> It would be great if xCAT could support in the init script to look for
> network driver options in the command line and follow those at init time.
> That doesn't seem to be supported :)
>
> On 11.01.2016 16:09, Russell Jones wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have kind of a strange question. We have some nodes we are netbooting that
> are using an Intel 10G card with a non-intel SFP. In order for the ixgbe
> driver to permit the SFP to work, you have to pass it the
> "allow_unsupported_sfp=1" option.
>
> This works when booted completely into the OS by booting from an Intel SFP,
> then swapping it out and reloading the module. However it is not working
> during boot time. I have tried passing it as a kernel flag using the
> addkcmdline option but it doesn't seem to be seeing the flag, or if it is,
> it's ignoring it.
>
> I am still working on manually manipulating the init script itself inside the
> initrd file to see if that will work, but wanted to check and see if, while
> the initrd is executing, kernel parameters are even seen at that time? This
> would help me narrow down what my options are.
>
> Thank you!
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