md not starting

[poyon]

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.

[pigdog]

Hi,

Here's a start.  What's your NIC?

http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Automatic_diskless_boot_of_media_directors

[poyon]

My eth0 is a Realteck RTL 8680? I think but not sure.
It is a Shuttly X27D without HDD.

[pigdog]

Hi,

Run a Live-CD on the MD and use the lspci -nn command to determine the make and model of your NIC.

[seth]

 
Then have a look here
http://wiki.linuxmce.org/index.php/Realtek_8168

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

and see if that sorts it out.

Regards,

Seth

[poyon]

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.

[tkmedia]

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

[poyon]

ah ok thanks.

did someone know when the 810 will be avalaible.

[poyon]

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......

[poyon]

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 },

[poyon]

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