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| 07:38 cake | morning |
| 07:39 cake | im having some issues with new dell servers with the broadcom 5709 chip |
| 07:39 cake | i created the nfsroot for lenny |
| 07:39 cake | then chrooted in and apted in the firmware-bnx2 package |
| 07:39 cake | i regenerated the initrd and made sure the /lib/firmware/bnx2... stuff is there |
| 07:40 cake | but still i get "cant load ..." and kernel panic when i try to boot the server with fai |
| 07:40 cake | any hits? |
| 07:40 formorer | you can add them with a little script in fai |
| 07:40 formorer | let me see if I can find it |
| 07:42 formorer | [10:38] <Mrfai> . /usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions |
| 07:42 formorer | [10:38] <Mrfai> mkdir -p "${DESTDIR}"/lib/firmware |
| 07:42 formorer | [10:38] <Mrfai> cp /lib/firmware/* "${DESTDIR}"/lib/firmware/ |
| 07:42 formorer | [10:38] <Mrfai> copy_exec /lib/udev/firmware.agent /lib/udev/ |
| 07:43 formorer | this has to go into /srv/fai/..../etc/initramfs-tools/hooks/firmware |
| 07:43 formorer | after that you have regenerate the initrd on the hostsystem and copy it into the tftp dir |
| 07:49 cake | hm i didnt quite get that |
| 07:49 cake | is this something that should be done when the nfsroot is created? |
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| 09:54 tempel | hello |
| 11:37 mgoetze | cake: 1. problem is that your regenerated initrd needs to get to the tftp server 2. manually editting your nfsroot is not clean, you should edit /etc/fai/NFSROOT instead |
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| 12:34 cake | mgoetze: we got it working after some fiddling around |
| Action: mgoetze is not a fan of fiddling ;) |
| 12:34 cake | make-fai-nfsroot -k to regenerate the nfsroot |
| 12:34 mgoetze | yup |
| 12:34 cake | after installing firmware-bnx2 inside the chroot (nfsroot) |
| 12:35 cake | so we got the thing booting |
| 12:35 cake | but as it turns out the installed system was missing the firmware |
| 12:35 cake | so we added it to package_config/FAIBASE |
| 12:35 cake | or something like that |
| 12:35 cake | and it seems like it worked |
| 12:35 cake | the system gets installed anyway |
| 12:36 cake | we couldnt make it work without flashing the bios of the dell servers tho |
| 12:36 cake | r610 |
| 12:36 cake | extremely annoying |
| 12:36 mgoetze | ah, interesting |
| 12:36 mgoetze | telmich: ^^ |
| 12:36 cake | so this is something that could/should be on a wiki page |
| 12:37 cake | its something with the way debian detects the hardware and the way it is represented |
| 12:37 cake | http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2009-June/039438.html |
| 12:37 cake | its not alot of info |
| 12:38 cake | we couldnt boot debian tho so we ended up with installing centos 5.3 livecd on a memstick |
| 12:38 cake | and then running the .bin which flashes the bios |
| 12:38 cake | a huge mess |
| 12:40 telmich | mgoetze: hmm? |
| 12:41 telmich | cake: ahhhhhh |
| 12:41 cake | telmich: you have r610s as well? :) |
| 12:41 telmich | cake: _had_; replaced them with some ibm x3550 m2 |
| Action: telmich got rid of them |
| 12:42 mgoetze | what did you do with them? send them to meeeee :) |
| 12:42 telmich | mgoetze: sent back to dell |
| 12:42 cake | telmich: ah hehe :) |
| 12:42 cake | fucking dell |
| 12:43 telmich | cake: that machine also has bnx2, but works fine |
| 12:44 telmich | I personally liked the sun x2270 quite a lot, too |
| 12:44 formorer | I also installed 40 dell boxes with fai |
| 12:44 telmich | but they only hat sata 0.5tb hds and 2gib memory modules |
| 12:44 cake | id say its a pretty big fuckup to send out the servers which doesnt work with debian at all |
| 12:44 cake | :S |
| 12:44 telmich | cake: dell doesn't care -- ibm normal support doesn't either, but their research lab does :-) |
| 12:45 cake | when will they start supporting ubuntu |
| 12:45 cake | fuckers |
| 12:45 mgoetze | supposedly dell are working on caring more, at least that's what their reps have been telling us |
| 12:45 cake | so, we recently switched to lenny instead of etch |
| 12:45 telmich | mgoetze: they must - they are more or less out of business for FOSS OS currently |
| 12:45 cake | is it true that i need a totally separate etc/fai-lenny and sep. nfsroot to make both work? |
| 12:46 cake | or can it be done with classes alone? |
| 12:46 telmich | 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 mgoetze | telmich: well apparently in the USA everyone uses RHEL, which is supported by dell |
| 12:46 telmich | cake: you need to /etc/fai; I use git with seperate branches for it |
| 12:47 cake | but they can use the same nfsroot? |
| 12:47 cake | now i have etc/fai-etch and etc/fai-lenny |
| 12:47 telmich | 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 telmich | cake: nope |
| 12:47 cake | right so two config dirs and two nfsroots |
| 12:47 cake | oki then at least we did that correctly :) |
| 12:48 telmich | hp says the support debian, but they've a crappy support hotline |
| 12:48 telmich | and their dl160 is also crappy built (at least the demo machine here) |
| 12:48 mgoetze | i'm told with hp it's a matter of getting through to the right people |
| 12:50 telmich | mgoetze: I cannot confirm that - even with the swiss coordinators they sucked, because their linux guys don't have a clue |
| 12:50 telmich | but I'm very critical - thus my "they suck" may be "they are not the best" for somebody else |
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| 13:00 maswan | 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 maswan | telmich: (but costs a bit more than the cheap dl1* machines) |
| 13:01 telmich | maswan: aren't dl1** the only 1u ones |
| 13:01 telmich | ? |
| 13:01 maswan | telmich: no, dl360/dl365 is the "normal" 1U series |
| 13:02 telmich | ahhh |
| 13:02 telmich | strange that they did not offer us those |
| 13:02 maswan | 380/385 is the "normal" 2U machines |
| 13:03 maswan | well, they do cost a bit more |
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| 21:42 SquOnk | Hello. |
| 21:43 SquOnk | 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 SquOnk | 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 SquOnk | Hints? |
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