[BlueOnyx:00909] Re: BlueOynx on SunFire X2200m2 Hardware

[Greg O'Lone]

I had a problem like this recently with a Tyan 2721 board. I ended up  
having to disable the management port and the 10/100 port (the two I  
was not going to use anyway) in the BIOS and reinstall BlueOnyx.

GregO

On Mar 30, 2009, at 10:38 pm, don caprio wrote:

> I've had various problems loading BlueOynx on my SunFire X2200m2  
> server.
>
> 1) I have two 500GB SATA drives installed. The installer boots and  
> then I get some
> sort of error and the Install complains about not finding an install  
> disk. I tried a couple times with
> the same results. I removed the second disk and then I'm able to get  
> through the install just fine.
>
> 2) The Sun Fire X2200 M2 Server uses 2 Ethernet controllers, the  
> Broadcom BCM5715C
> chip and an on board NVIDIA nForce Professional 3600 chip. eth0/eth1  
> are the Broadcom. eth1 is used
> for net Mgmt (eLOM and/or IPMI). eth2/eth3  are nVidia gig ports.  
> After I install all is well.
> I run the yum update and then after a reboot I lose eth0. 'ethtool  
> eth0' reports:
>
> Cannot get device settings: No such device
> Cannot get wake-on-lan settings: No such device
> Cannot get message level: No such device
> Cannot get link status: No such device
> No data available
>
> /etc/modprobe.conf:
> alias eth0 tg3
> alias eth1 tg3
> alias eth2 forcedeth
> alias eth3 forcedeth
> alias scsi_hostadapter sata_nv
> alias net-pf-10 off
>
> Anybody got any ideas? I can provide more detail if needed.
>
> Thanks.
>
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