Hi Scott:
I am not familiar with that particular piece of hardware.
Me either :-)
Are you able to connect to the network during the install?
It connects initially and then fails when the kernel tries to look for a DHCP server.
Or do you have an alternative ethernet device that you use for
networking during the
install and you need the ethernet driver to access the higher speed
network while
the host is in service?
I have an alternative device but it is NOT PCE bootable. It is a LINKSYS 10/100 LNE100TX w/o the boot ROM. If I could find a boot ROM for it I would use it as an alternative.
If you need the driver during install time, you will have to rebuild
the initrd that
you are using to boot the host via cobbler. This is a much more
involved process that
I hope we can avoid, and why I ask the question above about being able
to connect to
the network during the install.
Yup that makes sense. I am not sure how early in the process the problem occurs. I was hoping to avoid a rebuild by simply telling the kernel to use a different driver in the options.
Cheers,
Joe
-----Original Message----- From: Scott Henson [mailto:shenson@redhat.com] Sent: Monday, January 03, 2011 3:55 PM To: Joe Linoff; cobbler mailing list Cc: Joe Linoff Subject: RE: configuring PXE boot to load a new driver
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 12:47:25 -0800, "Joe Linoff" jlinoff@tabula.com wrote:
Hi Scott:
Thank you for responding so quickly.
Does the CentOS 5.5 standard kernel have the correct driver?
I don't think so, running lsmod showed r8169 was installed. According to the web page (http://elrepo.org/tiki/tiki-index.php?page=kmod-r8168) it says I need
r8168.
I am not familiar with that particular piece of hardware. Are you able to connect to the network during the install? Or do you have an alternative ethernet device that you use for networking during the install and you need the ethernet driver to access the higher speed network while the host is in service?
If you are installing xen and kernel-xen as part of the kickstart
process and setting kernel-xen
as the default boot dev, then you would also want to install
kmod-r8168 at the same time and things
should just take care of themselves.
Yup that is what I was thinking. Unfortunately I don't know how to do this. I was googling for vmlinuz kernel or cobbler options to help me. Do you have any suggestions?
As long as you do not require the driver during install time, there should be no issues. The directions about including kmod-r8168 in the %packages section should work.
If you need the driver during install time, you will have to rebuild the initrd that you are using to boot the host via cobbler. This is a much more involved process that I hope we can avoid, and why I ask the question above about being able to connect to the network during the install.
You will want to make sure you have the repos listed and add
kmod-r8168 to
the %packages section.
I will do that. But don't I still need to fix grub.conf?
You should not need to modify grub.conf for this to work. As long as the module is properly packaged, it should get autoloaded when the hardware is found during the boot process.
-- Scott Henson Red Hat CIS Operator WVU Alum BSAE/BSME