Hmm . . .

I just did a net install to a dual Opeteron TYAN S2892 Thunder K8SE MB 
machine with no issues.  This board has the dual port BCM5704 chipset.  
I did a pxe boot using the standard system-config-netboot tool and 
installed the x86_64 distro.

At first I had some issues with the net instal,l but upgrading the boot 
server from SL 4.1 to SL 4.2 cured them.

Cheers,

Sean.

Andreas Heiss wrote:

> Hi Folks,
> I have a problem with SL4:
> We got some new Opteron-Nodes and want to install them with SL4 with 
> Quattor.
> Unfortunately, the new boxes have a bcm network chip which needs the
> bcm5700 kernel module to work. This module is not available in the 
> installation initrd.img but we have the source-code for it.
> How can I put this module into the initrd.img ?
> Which version is the installation kernel?
>
> Where can I get the sources and config file for the installation kernel?
> How can I build an installation kernel and initrd which finds the 
> correct root partition of the installation system?
>
> Thank you.
> cheers
> Andreas
>
>
>

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