pxe/nfs boot random failures

[Waleed Harbi]

Is the server hardware for all of them same model?
If no, check the Ethernet card model are they same?
Could you please give us few lines from syslog, NOT 3 lines like below.


Best Regards,
Waleed Harbi
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On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Jimmy Stewpot <mailers at oranged.to> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am currently using some IBM 3850 M2 servers that we have booting from
> PXE to do NFS root stuff like updating firmware etc prior to getting the
> system installed with an operating system.
>
> Some of these servers install fine and other servers with identical
> configurations fail to install. In each case when it fails to start it
> gets to the following point
>
> [ 274.004114] NET: Registered protocol family 17
> IP-Config: eth0 hardware address 00:21:5e:36:21:c8 mtu 1500 DHCP RARP
> [ 274.095943] bnx2: eth0: using MSI
>
> After that it just hangs. I have checked the network and there are no
> request for DHCP or RARP so it appears to be a bug in the ipconfig that
> is included in the initrd images for Hardy, intrepid or Jaunty. This bug
> has been persistent for some time and I've been unable to narrow it down
> to anything specific. I have found other users with debian having
> similar problems specifically around broadcom network cards and FAI.
> however they appear to have no solution either.
>
> has anyone had this type of problem in the past with other platforms and
> over come it? Any advice would be warmly received.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jimmy.
>
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