This is already supported:
http://sourceforge.net/p/xcat/wiki/Supporting_driver_update_disk_for_Linux/
On 1/12/2016 4:43 PM, Russell Auld wrote:
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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