IBM blade center HS20 server) with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

Joseph Sinclair plug-discuss at stcaz.net
Fri Mar 31 21:49:10 MST 2006


One other thought.  I know IBM actually pre-installs RHEL on some
blades.  Have you tried looking through IBM's knowledgebase for the HS20
to find out if they have any re-install suggestions?

Dan Lund wrote:

>I have a kickstart file I use, and I tried that, but it just hangs at
>initialization.
>I'll work with it on monday, I'm thinking I'll try to strip apart the
>boot image of Gentoo and find out what kernel parameters they actually
>call when you type in "bladecenter".
>Eh, worst case scenario, I'll create a RH installer out of Gentoo.
>
>Thanks for the ideas, guys :)
>
>On 3/31/06, Eric Shubes <plug at shubes.net> wrote:
>
>  
>
>>In any case, I think that a network install is probably in order,
>>possibly with a network boot (to boot!).
>>
>>P.S. Whatever happened to Dennis's (I think) idea of a distro-silo
>>(server) for network installs at the InstallFest?
>>--
>>-Eric 'shubes'
>>    
>>


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