[Centos] [centos 3.4] e1000 and installation problem

Tue Feb 8 16:56:01 UTC 2005
Martin Hamant <mh at accelance.fr>

On Tue, 8 Feb 2005 17:35:57 +0100 (CET)
Christian Nygaard <chris at math.uu.se> disait:

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

I have very bad experiences with supermicro, but it's not "network
interface" related :-|

> 
> Have you tried PXE boot with ksdevice=link ?

Nope ! i have to try this .... where can i find documentation about that
?


-- 
Martin