Kickstart-list Digest, Vol 130, Issue 3

[Spike White]

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.

The *only* quirkness I've seen w/ this ixgbe / Intel 10 GbE NIC combo is if
the switch port is configured for 1 GbE.  Then the card seems to take a
while to auto-neg down to 1 GbE.  So we have to put a link delay in the
ifcfg-eth* file.  And all is good. I believe the syntax is:  LINKDELAY=10
or some such.

We never experienced this problem when kickstarting.  But even if we had, I
believe there's equiv syntax in the ks.cfg to do this.

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.

Long ago, I had a similar problem on SLES 10, I had to crack open the boot
media and put in a more recent raid controller driver.  That was when
vmlinuz was in the old format; I wouldn't know how to do that now.  And
even back then, it was quite painful.

That's why popping up your RHEL 6.x version seems to be an easier fix.

Spike

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> Subject: I need to build a couple modules into an ISO
> My team has around 450 servers (and increasing) distributed around the US
> in batches of 2 to 12 servers, and we install/reinstall them by uploading a
> ISO into "vflash" (or mounting via NFS/HTTP over the OOB interface. PXE is
> not really an option) and then telling the hardware to boot off that.
>
> We are using Intel 10G ethernet cards that use the ixgbe driver, but the
> one built into RHEL6.x doesn't work so we need to use the kmod-ixgbe ( see
> https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2011-1347.html )
>
> We usually install our servers in batches of 7 to 15, so we prefer to
> automate the process as much as possible (mounting a driver disk is
> problematic in our environment).
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> Thus I would like to build this into the kickstart initrd or image.img (or
> wherever) so that the interfaces can be lit up (additional problem, we're
> using bonding) during install.
>
> One way I have thought of doing this is to unpackage the RPM (rpm2cpio)
> and manually ifup the interface, but that would be sort ugly.
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> Any suggestions or pointers to documents?
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> Regards,
> Petro.
> :wq
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