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05-19-2011 10:32 AM
05-19-2011 10:32 AM
Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
I have the latest (9.30) firmware maintenance CD set up to PXE boot and it works fine in manual mode.
The PXE boot uses the first port of the onboard NIC (not mezz NIC), as expected.
When booting into manual mode, the firmware maintenance menu comes up and it is possible to successfully update everything.
However, in automatic mode, for some reason the first port of the mezz card is used as eth0 after the initrd loads (even though the blade PXE booted from the on-board NIC). This NIC is on another VLAN, which cannot mount the NFS share hosting the ISO image, and results in failure.
Seems like a bug, perhaps the order in which drivers are loaded are changed between auto and manual mode.
label sos
MENU LABEL Interactive Firmware Update Version 9.30 - Automatic
kernel /hpfw/vmlinuz
append vmlinuz initrd=/hpfw/initrd.img media=cdrom rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=355492 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 hp_fibre showopts TYPE=AUTOMATIC iso1=nfs://192.168.1.10/var/install/FW930.2011_0503.59.iso iso1mnt=/mnt/bootdevice
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05-22-2011 09:52 PM
05-22-2011 09:52 PM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
Regards.
//Cederberg
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05-23-2011 06:49 AM
05-23-2011 06:49 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
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07-05-2011 07:21 AM
07-05-2011 07:21 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
Noticing the same problem. Trying to run on 8 new blades and it worked fine on the first, but the rest seem to move the slot 1 NIC to eth1 making the CD fail to find the mnt ISO locations via NFS.
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07-05-2011 07:27 AM - edited 07-05-2011 08:00 AM
07-05-2011 07:27 AM - edited 07-05-2011 08:00 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
I will say that my problem might be related to long DHCP request times as well. I booted a device up three times and one time it did get the right NIC, but a long DHCP request didn't get the information in time. I might have to hack the netconfig.sh file and increase the length of DHCP request time. It does worry me that I keep getting inconsistent results with the NIC order.
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01-13-2012 09:31 AM
01-13-2012 09:31 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
Can some help me to find the the firmeware for HP BL465c G7? Currently I'm having problems to install ESXi4.1 as It cannot identify the onboard NICS. Not sure if a firmware will resolve this or not.
Has anybody else had any problems?
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02-02-2012 09:27 AM - edited 02-02-2012 09:33 AM
02-02-2012 09:27 AM - edited 02-02-2012 09:33 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
It's not a bug.. this is a normal behaviour. If you want to make it use the same eth used during the PXE boot you need to hack the initrd.
First add these parameters:
label sos
MENU LABEL Interactive Firmware Update Version 9.30 - Automatic
kernel /hpfw/vmlinuz
append vmlinuz initrd=/hpfw/initrd.img media=cdrom rw root=/dev/ram0 ramdisk_size=355492 init=/bin/init loglevel=3 ide=nodma ide=noraid nopat pnpbios=off vga=791 hp_fibre showopts TYPE=AUTOMATIC iso1=nfs://192.168.1.10/var/install/FW930.2011_0503.59.iso iso1mnt=/mnt/bootdevice
ip=dhcp ksdevice=bootif
ipappend 2
Then you have to edit the file root/compaq/hp.sh which can be found in fs.tar.lzma archive inside initrd image. Not in inird.img main tree but in fs.tar.lzma!!
Change the following line:
devarg="--device $netdevice"
with this one:
devarg="--device $ksdevice"
Archive again fs.tar.lzma and then initrd.img and you are ready to go :). Works great for me.
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02-03-2012 01:16 PM
02-03-2012 01:16 PM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
Make sure you are using the HP version of ESXi4.1 available from:
this has all the proliant blade NIC drivers built in and should find your NICs correctly.
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02-07-2012 08:04 AM
02-07-2012 08:04 AM
Re: Firmware maintenance cd - PXE boot - nic order changing on blades
Michael, this is not related to latest version.. nic order is os dependent, but pxe boot depends on bios.