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Re: some recent linux install problems:Mystery solved.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Cattey)
Wed Dec 12 14:54:00 2007
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From: William Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:53:22 -0500
To: "andrew m. boardman" <amb@mit.edu>, Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@mit.edu>
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I just heard back from Mark Silis with information that seems to
explain the mystery:
One of the DHCP servers has a messed up PXE config file which is now
corrected.
Depending on which DHCP server you got, you'd get either the right or
wrong installer.
(Funny how the name service may indeed have been a factor in this
problem.)
Anyway, it's officially fixed now.
On Dec 12, 2007, at 11:10 AM, Mark Silis wrote:
> I also looked into this, and it looks like there was a problem with
> the PXE configuration in one of our DHCP Servers and depending on
> which you got you may have encountered the problem. We fixed the
> busted pxe config file and it should be ok now.
-Bill
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On Dec 10, 2007, at 9:56 PM, andrew m. boardman wrote:
>
> 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.
