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Title: md not starting
Post by: poyon on September 27, 2009, 08:13:45 pm: Hello,

I have installed LMCE710 and I am trying to boot a diskless MD (micro ATX shuttle PC)

The TFTPBOOT is ok. I can see booting but after I see ETH0 : Link down and nothing happened anymore.

Can someone help me please?

Thanks.
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: pigdog on September 28, 2009, 03:31:56 pm: Hi,

Here's a start. What's your NIC?

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Automatic_diskless_boot_of_media_directors
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on September 29, 2009, 08:35:32 pm: My eth0 is a Realteck RTL 8680? I think but not sure.
It is a Shuttly X27D without HDD.
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: pigdog on September 30, 2009, 02:04:15 pm: Hi,

Run a Live-CD on the MD and use the lspci -nn command to determine the make and model of your NIC.
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: seth on September 30, 2009, 02:13:12 pm: :)
Then have a look here
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Realtek_8168 (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Realtek_8168)

and here
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Unrecognized_NIC (http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Unrecognized_NIC)

and see if that sorts it out.

Regards,

Seth
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on September 30, 2009, 11:02:04 pm: thanks I will try the wiki guide.
Why is the Realtek 8168 causing problem? Is it because I am under 710? under kubuntu 9.04 it is ok.
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: tkmedia on September 30, 2009, 11:05:15 pm: Quote
Is it because I am under 710? under kubuntu 9.04 it is ok.

Yes, 0710 has an older kernel that does not support that chip

hth

Tim
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on October 01, 2009, 08:03:17 pm: ah ok thanks.

did someone know when the 810 will be avalaible.
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on October 01, 2009, 09:51:01 pm: I have follow the Wiki for r8168 but now when I am booting the MD I have a message :

Kernel Panic .... nothing to configure
unable to open /tmp/eth0......
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on October 03, 2009, 08:07:24 pm: When I am following the WIKI I am blocked here :

Apply this patch:
patch < r8168.diff

--- drivers/net/r8169.c.orig 2008-09-05 17:07:29.000000000 +0300
+++ drivers/net/r8169.c 2008-09-04 23:49:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8129), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8136), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8167), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
- { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
+ //{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8169), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_DLINK, 0x4300), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1259, 0xc107), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },

I have this error :

Apply this patch:
patch < r8168.diff

--- drivers/net/r8169.c.orig 2008-09-05 17:07:29.000000000 +0300
+++ drivers/net/r8169.c 2008-09-04 23:49:51.000000000 +0300
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8129), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8136), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8167), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
- { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
+ //{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8169), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_DLINK, 0x4300), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(0x1259, 0xc107), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
Title: Re: md not starting
Post by: poyon on October 03, 2009, 11:24:04 pm: Ok it is working a little better after editing the r8169.c manually

but now I have this message :

Diskless setup failed but maybe is it because the core detected on AMD64 structure and my CORE is i386?
I will search in the wiki...

Thanks all for your help