[Centos] [centos 3.4] e1000 and installation problem

[Christian Nygaard]

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 !
> 
> -- 
> Martin
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Just installed a couple of Supermicro servers with e1000 nics this weekend 
using CentOS 3.4.

Have you tried PXE boot with ksdevice=link ?

//Chris