Re: DL140 and Kickstart via NFS

[Brian Long <brilong cisco com>]

Mark,

Are you sure spantree portfast is enabled on your switch port?

/Brian/

On Thu, 2004-09-09 at 11:31, Hoover Mark A AISC CONT wrote:
> Looking through Google, there seem to be a lot of people that have
> issues with the DL140 and Linux.  However, I haven't been able to find
> much of anything from anybody who's been able to overcome their issues.
> If anybody has any ideas, I'd appreciate the help! :)
> 
> I've got a DL140 that I'm attempting to kickstart from and NFS server.
> I've done this on DL360s and DL320s without any issues.  However, with
> the DL140s, the tg3 driver that the installer uses seems to have
> problems initializing the NICs.  Booting with a rescue disk that detects
> the same driver, it seems that the NICs eventually come up, but it takes
> a 30-40 count ping in order to be able to ping anything.  Unfortunately,
> this makes the NFS query for the kickstart configuration fail.
> 
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