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Subject:
SL 7 install network drivers
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"Stephen Berg (Contractor)" <[log in to unmask]>
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Stephen Berg (Contractor)
Date:
Wed, 12 Nov 2014 09:35:47 -0600
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I have a desktop system with Nvidia MCP55 ethernet chipset.  From my 
research this onboard NIC is supported in the kernel for SL7.  I can get 
the system to pxeboot but dracut dumps out to a prompt since it can't 
find any network to do the kickstart install.

Is there any way to force load the forcedeth.ko driver at pxeboot 
install time?  I have a dozen or so desktops that use the same NIC 
(SuperMicro H8DA8-2 motherboard) that are on the bubble to be 
re-installed with SL7 but so far this seems to be a show stopper.

One additional oddity I've been seeing:  The anaconda screen I see says 
this is a pre-release.  Pretty sure I pulled the vmlinuz and initrd.img 
files from the release DVD iso.  I copied them again from a new download 
that passes the sha256sum check, and they appear to be identical.

-- 
Stephen Berg
Systems Administrator
NRL Code: 7320
Office: 228-688-5738
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