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From: Andrew Madsen on 21 Jan 2008 08:48
I am trying to load an IBM JS21 blade. I go into the open firmware prompt
and enter in the following (I have cleaned up the sensitive information):
boot net:bootp,<Bootp Server IP>,,<client IP>,<client gateway>
netdevice=eth0 ip=<eth0 IP address> netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=<eth0
gateway address> install=nfs:<nfs server ip address>:/export/sles10sp1/ppc
vnc=1 vncpassword=<the vnc password>

The server finds the inst64 boot kernel and starts to load it with the
following:

command line: netdevice=eth0 ip=<eth0 IP address> netmask=255.255.255.0
gateway=<eth0 gateway address> install=nfs:<nfs server ip
address>:/export/sles10sp1/ppc vnc=1 vncpassword=<the vnc password>

The kernel loads fine the rest of the way except when it gets to loading the
Ethernet interface and I get this:
Searching for info file...
Sending DHCP request to eth0...

From what I have read the information I entered as a kernel command line
should have assigned the information to eth0 but it is appearing not to. Has
anyone else run into this?

Andrew C. Madsen
Harley-Davidson Inc.



From: David Bolt on 22 Jan 2008 00:12
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, Andrew Madsen wrote:-

>boot net:bootp,<Bootp Server IP>,,<client IP>,<client gateway>
>netdevice=eth0 ip=<eth0 IP address> netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=<eth0
>gateway address> install=nfs:<nfs server ip address>:/export/sles10sp1/ppc
>vnc=1 vncpassword=<the vnc password>

Try adding 'usedhcp=0' to the options. From looking at:

<URL:http://en.opensuse.org/Linuxrc>

DHCP is used to configure the network interface by default, unless you
explicitly turn it off.


>The kernel loads fine the rest of the way except when it gets to loading the
>Ethernet interface and I get this:
>Searching for info file...
>Sending DHCP request to eth0...

Which sort of confirms the requirement to explicitly disable DHCP.


Regards,
David Bolt

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