Hi everyone, I have used Autoyast successfully to install SuSE 8.2 Pro on multiple IBM Blade servers. Each one of these servers comes with two Broadcom gigabit cards, I used the bcm5700 module which worked fine during and after the installation. We purchased more of these Blades, which come with the next generation Broadcom cards, they work fine after a manual installation is complete. The problem is during the automated installation. After the installation kernel loads, the card tries to get a DHCP IP from the NFS server (before YAST starts), that's when it hangs. I checked the DHCP server logs and it doesn't seem like the request is even reaching the server. I tried loading 9.0 on one of the Blade servers, and it worked using Autoyast. But I have to stick with SuSE 8.2 for now. Is there an updated version of the SuSE 8.2 Pro loader files (initrd, linux, memtest...)? Thanks for your time, Mouncef
I've run into similar problems with the bcm5700 driver. I fixed the problem by over-writing the bcm5700 driver that was in the original SuSE initrd with a driver that I knew worked. Specifically, I had this problem with some of the IBM Opteron 325 eServers. Hope that this helps. Dustin On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 14:22, Mouncef_Belcaid@blm.gov wrote:
Hi everyone,
I have used Autoyast successfully to install SuSE 8.2 Pro on multiple IBM Blade servers. Each one of these servers comes with two Broadcom gigabit cards, I used the bcm5700 module which worked fine during and after the installation. We purchased more of these Blades, which come with the next generation Broadcom cards, they work fine after a manual installation is complete. The problem is during the automated installation. After the installation kernel loads, the card tries to get a DHCP IP from the NFS server (before YAST starts), that's when it hangs. I checked the DHCP server logs and it doesn't seem like the request is even reaching the server. I tried loading 9.0 on one of the Blade servers, and it worked using Autoyast. But I have to stick with SuSE 8.2 for now. Is there an updated version of the SuSE 8.2 Pro loader files (initrd, linux, memtest...)?
Thanks for your time, Mouncef
On Tue, 18 May 2004 Mouncef_Belcaid@blm.gov wrote:
I have used Autoyast successfully to install SuSE 8.2 Pro on multiple IBM Blade servers. Each one of these servers comes with two Broadcom gigabit cards, I used the bcm5700 module which worked fine during and after the installation. We purchased more of these Blades, which come with the next generation Broadcom cards, they work fine after a manual installation is complete. The problem is during the automated installation. After the installation kernel loads, the card tries to get a DHCP IP from the NFS server (before YAST starts), that's when it hangs. I checked the DHCP server logs and it doesn't seem like the request is even reaching the server. I tried loading 9.0 on one of the Blade servers, and it worked using Autoyast. But I have to stick with SuSE 8.2 for now. Is there an updated version of the SuSE 8.2 Pro loader files (initrd, linux, memtest...)?
On 32bit systems I've found that the tg3 driver is a lot more stable than the bcm5700 driver. Have you tried that? Bjørn -- Bjørn Tore Sund Phone: (+47) 555-84894 Stupidity is like a System administrator Fax: (+47) 555-89672 fractal; universal and Math. Department Mobile: (+47) 918 68075 infinitely repetitive. University of Bergen VIP: 81724 Support: system@mi.uib.no Contact: teknisk@mi.uib.no Direct: bjornts@mi.uib.no
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