Thread: Install issue

My company has received an evaluation unit of the new Nehalem-based Dell R610 1U server. It has 12G of RAM and plenty of disk space. Two 2.26 Quad-core CPUs, yielding 16 cores seen by the OS (Simultaneous Multi-Threading). It also has 4 built-in NICs and a e1000 two-port NIC card, giving me 6 total NICs.

I deploy this node from a Dell 1435 frontend, running Platofrm OCS 5.1 Dell Edition, as a diskless node, and everything installs fine, and I'm happy.

I try to deploy this node as a diskful compute node, and it doesn't work. Anaconda is loading the e1000 driver before it loads the Broadcom driver, thus transfering eth0 to the add-on NIC card.

When it does this, the installer getsa loaded onto the compute node, then loads up the two drivers in the wrong order and then it cannot find the install server anymore.

While I understand that the workaround for me right now is to remove the add-on NIC, this issue may crop up in the future for other users. Is there any way of actually correcting this without customizing the install scripts?

Hi

Are you trying to install from the 1st nic of the internal Broadcom nic?

Can you provide the output of boothost -l?

This week Platform is starting a OCS 5.3 beta program. OCS 5.3 supports RHEL 5.3 and the new Dell Nehalem hardware. I suggest you contact support@platform.com and ask to be part of the OCS 5.3 beta program.

Yes, I am trying to install from the first NIC of the internal Broadcom.

There is no "boothost" command found on either the frontend, or on the compute node. I tried performing the command, then tried a "find / -name boothost" and came up empty both times.

Thank you for the suggestion. I have sent them an e-mail outlining this issue as well as requesting to be part of the beta program.

Originally Posted by ltsai

Hi

Are you trying to install from the 1st nic of the internal Broadcom nic?

Can you provide the output of boothost -l?

OK, I must've missed it, or mistyped it, or something. Here is the output of the "boothost -l" command:
Node: testv5 Node Group: installer-rhel-5-x86_64
State: Installed Boot: Disk
Kernel: kernel-rhel-5-x86_64
Initrd: initrd-rhel-5-x86_64.img
Kernel Params: text noipv6 kssendmac selinux=0 pci=bfsort
MAC: 00:18:8b:79:7a:8a IP: 192.168.0.100
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Node: compute-00-00 Node Group: compute-rhel-5-x86_64
State: Installed Boot: Network
Kernel: kernel-rhel-5-x86_64
Initrd: initrd-rhel-5-x86_64.img
Kernel Params: text noipv6 kssendmac selinux=0 pci=bfsort
MAC: 00:22:19:54:56:b5 IP: 172.20.0.2
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Node: compute-00-01 Node Group: compute-rhel-5-x86_64
State: Installed Boot: Disk
Kernel: kernel-rhel-5-x86_64
Initrd: initrd-rhel-5-x86_64.img
Kernel Params: text noipv6 kssendmac selinux=0 pci=bfsort
MAC: 00:15:17:a5:3d:48 IP: 172.20.0.3
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