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November 26th, 2007 07:00
Altiris and Linux boot disk
I have been redirected here by mombodog - if this is still not the correct location for this type of query then hopefully an admin will step in and do the honours :smileyhappy:
Setup: Altiris Deployment Solution 6.5 SP1, Linux PXE boot disk, Deployment Solution for Dell Servers 2.0 SP1
Server: PE6850
We have a working scenario on one server but the configuration now needs to be transferred to another Deployment server (DS) however when I try to recreate the linux boot disk on this new DS the behaviour at boot is different despite the configuration looking the same. There is not much that can be specified when creating the boot disk so I believe that the problem lies somewhere in the Dell toolkit element.
The differences that I have noted are how the hardware is discovered. There are several NICs in the server and in the working setup they are discovered one by one and listed accordingly. In the new, non working environment, only one NIC is found (the first Broadcom). Secondly the IPMI element is treated differently.
In the working world:
Altiris Deployment Agent for Linux (Version 2.4-18)
Copyright (C) 1996-2005. Altiris, Inc. All rights reserved.
[2557 2007-11-06 11:24:11.668583 adlagent] Tue Nov 6 11:24:11 2007
/# ipmi message handler version 38.0
ipmi device interface
IPMI System Interface driver.
ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20
IPMI kcs interface initialized
Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot.
IPMI poweroff: Found a chassis style poweroff function
IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
Copyright (C) 1996-2005. Altiris, Inc. All rights reserved.
[2557 2007-11-06 11:24:11.668583 adlagent] Tue Nov 6 11:24:11 2007
/# ipmi message handler version 38.0
ipmi device interface
IPMI System Interface driver.
ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20
IPMI kcs interface initialized
Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot.
IPMI poweroff: Found a chassis style poweroff function
IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
In the non-working world:
Altiris Deployment Agent for Linux (Version 2.4-18)
Copyright (C) 1996-2005. Altiris, Inc. All rights reserved.
Copyright (C) 1996-2005. Altiris, Inc. All rights reserved.
[2557 2007-11-06 11:41:59.742690 adlagent] Tue Nov 6 11:41:59 2007
/# ipmi message handler version 38.0
ipmi device interface
IPMI System Interface driver.
ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20
Could not set up I/O space
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000ca08-00000cac>
ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot.
IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
ipmi device interface
IPMI System Interface driver.
ipmi_si: Found SMBIOS-specified state machine at I/O address 0xca8, slave address 0x20
Could not set up I/O space
Trying to free nonexistent resource <00000ca08-00000cac>
ipmi_si: Unable to find any System Interface(s)
Copyright (C) 2004 MontaVista Software - IPMI Powerdown via sys_reboot.
IPMI Watchdog: driver initialized
(I have highlighted the difference in red)
I realise that not everyone uses linux and/or Altiris but has anyone any suggestions as to what could be the problem? This is on the same server so it is not a question of differing configurations of hardware.
Any assistance would be appreciated.
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