Tim Edwards wrote:
> We're trying to kickstart SL4.3 on a Sunfire x4140 which appears to have
>  inbuilt-NICs which use an Nvidia chipset. The problem is that although
> the NIC's ROM manages to boot off the network, once anaconda is started
> it fails to see any network devices. I can see in the messages that the
> forcedeth kernel module is loaded.
> 
> I found a RHEL bug that suggests that the NICs are detected as bridge
> devices and not plain ethernet NICs:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=156688
> 
> We need to use SL 4.3 (due to internal application certifications) so
> can anyone suggest a possible workaround for this? Has anyone installed
> SL/Centos/RHEL 4.x on this server before?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Tim Edwards
> 

The obvious (to me) workaround is to install a new NIC, at least for the 
install.

It might also be worth trying to boot a live CD (is CentOS4 available?) 
to see whether the NIC works.



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