Could this approach be used to get vendor-supplied network drivers into the PXE
sequence?
Or the RH Anaconda installation kernel?
From: Russell Jones [mailto:russell-l...@jonesmail.me]
Sent: Monday, January 11, 2016 6:33 PM
To: xCAT Users Mailing list <xcat-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: [xcat-user] addkcmdline and network drivers during initrd time
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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