I have the exact same setup where I work. The problem is that the broadcom(tg3) adapters do not work well with pump. You will find that if you bring the interfaces up with and address of 0.0.0.0 and then request an address by through dhpc it will work. There are several ways of getting around this with a kickstart. The easiest solution is to use the pxe kickstart rather than floppy. This works without any modifications. Another way is to create a custom boot disk using busybox. Have busybox bring up the interface with an address 0.0.0.0 and then from the busybox init run the /sbin/loader. You will also have to modify the anaconda loader program because it checks to see if it is process number zero, and if it isn't process zero then it exits. On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Maura Simas wrote: > > I am not sure if I am posting this to the correct list or not but here > goes. We have a cluster of DL380s we are setting up using RedHat 7.3. Our > problem is that the PCI Bus is probed first (these are gigabit connections > of which we have two) while the internal nics are probed last (these are > tg3 nics with 100mb connection also 2). We have one system set up as the > headwhile the other three are set up as nodes. We are kickstarting the > nodes using DHCP. Our problem is that eth0 is one of the gigabit cards but > we want our DHCP requests to go over our first internal nic (tg3). On the > head node this isnt a problem, we simply edit the modules.conf file and > move things around. > > > > Our problem is the nodes that we want to kickstart using DHCP. They send > their requests via eth0 which is a problem since after editing the > modules.conf file on the head node eth0 is tg3&..so, the nodes never get > their IP addresses. > > > > My question is: Is there anyway we can work around this with the > software? Any and all suggestions would be most helpful since I have been > working on this for a week now. > > > > Maura. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > -- Robin Mordasiewicz 416-207-7012 UNIX Administrator Primus Canada
