IBM blade center HS20 server) with Redhat Enterprise Linux 4

[Craig White]

On Fri, 2006-03-31 at 20:33 -0700, Eric "Shubes" wrote:
> 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 :)
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linux noprobe is pretty much the same thing.

I gave him a link to all of the boot time options - I thought the vnc
install was most appealing as it allowed him to use a regular computer
terminal to do the install - possibly in graphic mode.

Craig