IBM blade center HS20 server) with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

[Eric "Shubes"]

No prob, Dan. This is an interesting challenge, and I'm sure a learning 
experience. Sometimes all we (all) need is a sounding board, and this 
list is great for that (at least I think so).

One other thought. Kudzu, you know, is used for probing HW on 
RHEL/Centos/Fedora (and who-knows other distros). While investigating my 
recent problem with kudzu (FC5), I seem to remember running across 
various kudzu bugs that blanked the screen, hung the system, and 
generally created havoc. Kudzu is not my favorite program on that 
platform, although it generally works very nicely (when it works). Kudzu 
would be my first suspicion to your problem, and anything you can do to 
disable/bypass it might get you further on your road. Then again, it may 
not. ;) FWIW.

Good luck, and let us know how you made out.

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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-Eric 'shubes'
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