[5888] in Release_7.7_team
some recent linux install problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (andrew m. boardman)
Mon Dec 10 21:57:31 2007
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:56:52 -0500
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From: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
CC: jtguy@MIT.EDU, larugsi@MIT.EDU
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While I was blissfully offline last week, a bunch of problems came up
with installing new Dell gx745 systems in various clusters.
After some investigation today, it appears that:
- All network-based installs were broken, not just on the 745s,
but CD-based installs with either old or new (beta) worked.
- The newly-delivered 745s have the same chipsets as the old 745s.
- Everything started working again this afternoon, right about the time
I jumped into the van with jtguy to go check out some machines.
- This is probably completely unrelated to the Solaris install problems
(also now resolved).
Inquiries are outstanding with netops about what might have changed on
their end with the PXE install server, but that seems to be the most
likely problem right now.
