Debian installation on HP Bl460cG6
Today we started to install Debian 5.03 on our new blades. We are installing via preseed so we have to manage that the bnx2x firmware works. It isn’t included in the netinstaller. Also there is a little issue with the cdrom dection (trough ILO2) but the workaround is just easy.
You could find the documentation about it in the wiki here and here. Here is a short exerpt:
1. cdrom could not be found
2. press no
3. choose “manual select”
4. choose “/dev/cdrom”
To integrate the bnx2x firmware in the netinstaller use the script you could find on the following page:
http://dannf.org/bloggf/tech/add-firmware-to.html
Special thanks to Dann Frazier who wrote this script!
You could find additional inforamtion here:
http://wiki.debian.org/HP/ProLiant
September 30th, 2009 at 14:56
We use the exact same hardware setup and Debian version as you, but are unable to get the bnx2x driver to work properly during the installation. When requesting an IP address from our DHCP server we get no reply (please note that DHCP requests work fine on CentOS, which we installed to verify that this wasn’t a hardware issue). Did you have a similar problem? If yes, how did you solve it?
September 30th, 2009 at 19:53
Based upon your post I think you have already integrated the bnx2x firmware into the netinstall setup iso. We are using a preseed file (take a look at our entry at http://wiki.openvz.org/A_managed_OpenVZ_installation) and there we are using the “d-i netcfg/dhcp_timeout string 60″ setting. Maybe it took to long for the D-I to get an address from your dhcp. Maybe you could look at your dhcp log file if the server is requesting a lease?
Mario