HP BL460c G6 - Any one got this working??

[Leen Smit]

Hello All,

Just an update for future reference. The problem with the BL460C G6 had 
nothing to do with the firmware or the initrd.
Installing the bnx2x firmware into the NFSROOT indeed should be sufficient.

In our case udev was the culprit. We had the firmware installed and 
available, but still got messages that the firmware couldn't be found.
Our guess is that the firmware wasn't yet loaded/found when the hardware 
was found, resulting in a non-booting system.
In the end we had fixed the problem by trial and error changing the udev 
rules in such in a way that the firmware was actually loaded when it 
encountered the hardware.

So nothing wrong with FAI.
I haven't spend any more time on the grml kernel, and I can't recall 
what exactly the problem was with that. Can only recall the nfs root 
wasn't being created.
In the end we didn't use the grml kernel, since installing the 
firmware-bnx2x package is sufficient.

Thanks for the help and the quick responses! much appreciated..

Leen Smit





On 10/04/2010 05:31 PM, Thomas Lange wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 17:04:13 +0200, Leen Smit<leen at service2media.com>  said:
>      >    Hello All,
>      >  We just got a bunch of new blades in. Lucky for me they are a new
>      >  generation: G6.
>      >  I'm struggling to get these things installed, so I'm hoping some one
>      >  here has experience with these.
>
>      >  The problem lies with the bnx2x network cards, which is not in my
>      >  current FAI config.
>      >  I have tried lots of different options, and I keep running into a wall.
>
> Have a look at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=578407
> and http://layer-acht.org/fai-irc/fai.log.20090916.html
>
> There's also a firmware-bnx2x (0.24~bpo50+1) package in lenny
> backports. Maybe this helps.