Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 130, Issue 3

[shailendra sodhi]

How about extracting the initrd image from install media (located in
isolinux dir) and adding the 10GbE driver to kernel/modules directory. We
used to extract initrd and remove the LSI raid controller drivers
(megaraid.ko) in past as we did not wanted the Raid drives to come up
during installation.

On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:58 PM, Petro <petro at cpetro.us> wrote:

> On 15/3/17 7:26 PM, Spike White wrote:
> > This URL you posted seems to indicate this is a RHEL 6.1-specific
> > problem.
> >
> > Have you tried a more recent RHEL6 version?  We boot just fine off 10
> > GbE-capable ethernet cards (X520s or X540s). We image to RHEL 6.3 and
> 6.5.
>
> I'm working with 6.5 and now 6.6. I'm not PXE booting, or "booting off
> the card" (we have a huge and hugely complex network. Getting the PXE
> helper set up and maintained across the network Aegean Stables level of
> work.).
>
> I'll be checking again tomorrow, but the stock ixgbe driver doesn't seem
> to come up (another problem not mentioned in my first email is that
> we're using bonding). I can get the network configured, but the
> interfaces aren't up.
>
> I'll try again tomorrow.
>
> > If the switch port is set to 10 GbE, I've seen no quirkness on the
> > RHEL 6.3 or 6.5 ixgbe driver.  And we've imaged hundred of servers at
> > this point to RHEL 6.3 or 6.5, all with Intel NICs.
> We also routinely go straight in to routers--these servers will push
> 20Gb (well, about 17.5 for the bond. After that stuff starts getting
> problematic).
>
> Anyway, I'll try again with the stock driver and see if it will do the
> needful, but it hasn't so far.
>
> Regards,
> Petro.
> :wq
>
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