[00:16] ErKa (keryell@keryell.pck.nerim.net) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [07:00] ErKa (keryell@keryell.pck.nerim.net) joined #fai. [07:38] cake (cake@212.117.169.179) joined #fai. [07:38] morning [07:39] im having some issues with new dell servers with the broadcom 5709 chip [07:39] i created the nfsroot for lenny [07:39] then chrooted in and apted in the firmware-bnx2 package [07:39] i regenerated the initrd and made sure the /lib/firmware/bnx2... stuff is there [07:40] but still i get "cant load ..." and kernel panic when i try to boot the server with fai [07:40] any hits? [07:40] you can add them with a little script in fai [07:40] let me see if I can find it [07:42] [10:38] . /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions [07:42] [10:38] mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}"/lib/firmware [07:42] [10:38] cp /lib/firmware/* "${DESTDIR}"/lib/firmware/ [07:42] [10:38] copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.agent /lib/udev/ [07:43] this has to go into /srv/fai/..../etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/firmware [07:43] after that you have regenerate the initrd on the hostsystem and copy it into the tftp dir [07:49] hm i didnt quite get that [07:49] is this something that should be done when the nfsroot is created? [07:59] edoreld (~Adium@dslb-088-073-013-042.pools.arcor-ip.net) joined #fai. [08:08] edoreld (Adium@dslb-088-073-013-042.pools.arcor-ip.net) left #fai. [08:17] verwilst (~verwilst@router.begen1.office.netnoc.eu) joined #fai. [08:24] puck (~puck@leibniz.catalyst.net.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [08:29] puck (~puck@leibniz.catalyst.net.nz) joined #fai. 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[12:34] mgoetze: we got it working after some fiddling around [12:34] Action: mgoetze is not a fan of fiddling ;) [12:34] make-fai-nfsroot -k to regenerate the nfsroot [12:34] yup [12:34] after installing firmware-bnx2 inside the chroot (nfsroot) [12:35] so we got the thing booting [12:35] but as it turns out the installed system was missing the firmware [12:35] so we added it to package_config/FAIBASE [12:35] or something like that [12:35] and it seems like it worked [12:35] the system gets installed anyway [12:36] we couldnt make it work without flashing the bios of the dell servers tho [12:36] r610 [12:36] extremely annoying [12:36] ah, interesting [12:36] telmich: ^^ [12:36] so this is something that could/should be on a wiki page [12:37] its something with the way debian detects the hardware and the way it is represented [12:37] http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-June/039438.html [12:37] its not alot of info [12:38] we couldnt boot debian tho so we ended up with installing centos 5.3 livecd on a memstick [12:38] and then running the .bin which flashes the bios [12:38] a huge mess [12:40] mgoetze: hmm? [12:41] cake: ahhhhhh [12:41] telmich: you have r610s as well? :) [12:41] cake: _had_; replaced them with some ibm x3550 m2 [12:41] Action: telmich got rid of them [12:42] what did you do with them? send them to meeeee :) [12:42] mgoetze: sent back to dell [12:42] telmich: ah hehe :) [12:42] fucking dell [12:43] cake: that machine also has bnx2, but works fine [12:44] I personally liked the sun x2270 quite a lot, too [12:44] I also installed 40 dell boxes with fai [12:44] but they only hat sata 0.5tb hds and 2gib memory modules [12:44] id say its a pretty big fuckup to send out the servers which doesnt work with debian at all [12:44] :S [12:44] cake: dell doesn't care -- ibm normal support doesn't either, but their research lab does :-) [12:45] when will they start supporting ubuntu [12:45] fuckers [12:45] supposedly dell are working on caring more, at least that's what their reps have been telling us [12:45] so, we recently switched to lenny instead of etch [12:45] mgoetze: they must - they are more or less out of business for FOSS OS currently [12:45] is it true that i need a totally separate etc/fai-lenny and sep. nfsroot to make both work? [12:46] or can it be done with classes alone? [12:46] their blades suck for anything but windows/linux (*bsd does not see the raid controller), they use bnx2, they *refuse* to give support with a not supported OS, although the HW was broken [12:46] telmich: well apparently in the USA everyone uses RHEL, which is supported by dell [12:46] cake: you need to /etc/fai; I use git with seperate branches for it [12:47] but they can use the same nfsroot? [12:47] now i have etc/fai-etch and etc/fai-lenny [12:47] mgoetze: I don't care - I'm in europe and if they don't like europeans way, they are out of business (which is the case here) [12:47] cake: nope [12:47] right so two config dirs and two nfsroots [12:47] oki then at least we did that correctly :) [12:48] hp says the support debian, but they've a crappy support hotline [12:48] and their dl160 is also crappy built (at least the demo machine here) [12:48] i'm told with hp it's a matter of getting through to the right people [12:50] mgoetze: I cannot confirm that - even with the swiss coordinators they sucked, because their linux guys don't have a clue [12:50] but I'm very critical - thus my "they suck" may be "they are not the best" for somebody else [12:50] edoreld (~Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) joined #fai. [12:51] edoreld (Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) left #fai. [13:00] telmich: dl1* is lowest-bidder rebranded 3rd party stuff, quality there varies _alot_ between different models. the dl3* and higher stuff is the hp-designed stuff. [13:01] telmich: (but costs a bit more than the cheap dl1* machines) [13:01] maswan: aren't dl1** the only 1u ones [13:01] ? [13:01] telmich: no, dl360/dl365 is the "normal" 1U series [13:02] ahhh [13:02] strange that they did not offer us those [13:02] 380/385 is the "normal" 2U machines [13:03] well, they do cost a bit more [13:41] uchimata_ (~uchimata@i3ED6DF23.versanet.de) joined #fai. [13:47] uchimata (~uchimata@i3ED6DE74.versanet.de) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [13:56] verwilst (~verwilst@router.begen1.office.netnoc.eu) left irc: Quit: Ex-Chat [14:17] ErKa (keryell@m7.wifi.enstb.org) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [14:59] ErKa (keryell@m7.wifi.enstb.org) joined #fai. [15:06] edoreld (~Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) joined #fai. [15:33] edoreld (Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) left #fai. [16:01] edoreld (~Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) joined #fai. [16:01] edoreld (Adium@dslb-088-073-058-186.pools.arcor-ip.net) left #fai. [16:18] ErKa (keryell@m7.wifi.enstb.org) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [16:44] ErKa (~keryell@keryell.pck.nerim.net) joined #fai. [18:14] Nic0 (~courtel@fw.tls.cena.fr) left irc: Quit: Leaving. [20:19] puck (~puck@leibniz.catalyst.net.nz) left irc: Ping timeout: 480 seconds [20:26] puck (~puck@leibniz.catalyst.net.nz) joined #fai. [20:46] ErKa (~keryell@keryell.pck.nerim.net) left irc: Remote host closed the connection [21:42] SquOnk (~emhn@201.211.88.228) joined #fai. [21:42] Hello. [21:43] I've been trying to figure out why I'm unable to install dual-boot machines. I'm using unmodified fai 3.2.17 as shipped with Debian Lenny. [21:44] The target machines have /dev/sda1 as NTFS. FAI does the install, but GRUB does not create the appropiate entry in menu.lst [21:44] Hints? [22:01] SquOnk (emhn@201.211.88.228) left #fai (Foly huck!). [00:00] --- Sat Jul 4 2009