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Description of Problem: 7.1 bootnet.img fails to initialize either eth0 or eth1 (when chosen in dialog prompt) when both are eepro100 devices. symptom is both assigned same IRQ if you check on the kernel messages VC. further steps such as DHCP, or ftp after manual IP configuration, fail to establish network connections. SGI RH7.1+XFS modified bootnet.img does not have this problem on the same hosts. How Reproducible: host: intel 440GX server platform, dual 550 MHz PIII, onboard and PCI card eepro100 adapters; ours are VALinux nodes. Steps to Reproduce: 1. obtain platform 2. boot with bootnet.img 3. choose an interface and try to continue Actual Results: stuck at point where network traffic is attempted, as if network link is failing. Expected Results: boot into 2nd-stage ramdisk. Additional Information:
The installer does not assign IRQ's. This must be specific to the hardware becuase I've used quite a few Compaq's with dual on-board eepro100 NICs with no problems. Reassiging to the kernel.
Let me guess: the SMP kernel works just fine. You can use the bootdisk from http://people.redhat.com/dledford/440gx for this, if you provide the "apic" parameter to syslinux. This is a bug in the BIOS where it gives misinformation about IRQ routing on the motherboard.
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