[BlueOnyx:10732] Re: Kickstart error during install of BlueOnyx 5108R

[Lew Berry]

I've gotten around this in the past by disabling the Broadcom and Installing Intel NIC's

Lew Berry, 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: blueonyx-bounces at mail.blueonyx.it [mailto:blueonyx-
> bounces at mail.blueonyx.it] On Behalf Of Herb Rubin
> Sent: Monday, June 04, 2012 9:59 PM
> To: BlueOnyx General Mailing List
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:10724] Re: Kickstart error during install of BlueOnyx 5108R
> 
> All,
> 
> I finally had a chance to boot into rescue mode. It did activate the network
> with the built in Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 Dual Port Gigabit Ethernet NIC as
> em1 instead of eth0.
> 
> What can I do about this to get it to install on this dell server?
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Herb Rubin" <herbr at pfinders.com>
> To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 10:52:34 AM
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:10555] Re: Kickstart error during install of	BlueOnyx
> 	5108R
> 
> All,
> 
> This is a R210 poweredge. I will boot into rescue mode and see what it
> detects with ifconfig -a
> 
> Herb
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Stauber" <mstauber at blueonyx.it>
> To: "BlueOnyx General Mailing List" <blueonyx at mail.blueonyx.it>
> Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 5:57:24 AM
> Subject: [BlueOnyx:10553] Re: Kickstart error during install of BlueOnyx
> 	5108R
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> > I had a Dell system with the same issue.  Would like to find a
> > resolution to this. I disabled the internal interface and installed a
> > PCI nic card with no success.
> 
> Even then the question remails which NICs the OS sees. For that please boot
> from the BlueOnyx CD in rescue mode (at the BlueOnyx splash screen type:
> "linux rescue").
> 
> When the rescue OS has loaded, type "ifconfig -a" to see all interfaces,
> including the non active ones.
> 
> Under Linux eth0 is the defacto standard device for the first network
> interface.
> 
> Hence BlueOnyx requires eth0 in various places. In the Kickstart scripts of the
> CD, in the setup scripts at the end of the install and in the base-network
> module of the GUI.
> 
> --
> With best regards
> 
> Michael Stauber
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