On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:35:57 +0100 (CET)
Christian Nygaard <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> disait:
> On Tue, 8 Feb 2005, Martin Hamant wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I install Centos'es from PXE, with vmlinuz and initrd provided by
> > images/pxeboot from the first CD of centos 3.4.
> >
> > The server is a PowerEdge 1850 with two integrated e1000 nic
> > interfaces.
> >
> > So kernel is booting, then it comes to the screen which ask for one
> > nic to do a dhcp query. I choose eth0, dhcp server reply well and
> > then i get an ip address, dns'es, etc. And nothing else happen
> > because the nic link is going down at this point !!! (no light, no
> > way. )
> >
> > I've tried with PXE install of centos 3.3, and all is working fine
> > on this server....
> >
> > Do you think there is a problem with the centos 3.4 "installation
> > time" kernel ? I remember that centos 3.1 had problems about this
> > nic too ...
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > Thank you !
> >
>
> Just installed a couple of Supermicro servers with e1000 nics this
> weekend using CentOS 3.4.
I have very bad experiences with supermicro, but it's not "network
interface" related :-|
>
> Have you tried PXE boot with ksdevice=link ?
Nope ! i have to try this .... where can i find documentation about that
?
--
Martin
