<div dir="ltr">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 If you want your goals to come true, don't sleep. <div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Jimmy Stewpot <<a href="mailto:mailers@oranged.to">mailers@oranged.to</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> 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. -- ubuntu-server mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server</a> More info: <a href="https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam" target="_blank">https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam</a> </blockquote></div> </div>