Description of problem: We have many HP DL360 G5 servers however we have noticed with a few recent systems that they will not network install. In the anaconda installer when it tried to bring the ethernet adaptor up for the 3rd time it hangs saying it has lost link. Upgrading the bnx2 driver to the latest available from broadcom in the installer initrd resolved this issue. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.18-53.el5 How reproducible: Dependant on the hardware. Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: We could only get this happening on some of our hardware so this may be a bug with only one chip revision or a combination of a broadcom chip revision and some other chip revision in the system somewhere. We can have two HP DL360 G5 servers sitting side by side and one server will experience the issue and the other won't with exactly the same firmware and even the same network port and cable. I tried all of the suggest workarounds available for the anaconda network install, link sleep, ethtool settings, etc and none of these worked. Only updating the driver seems to resolve this issue. I first tried to create a driver disk to resolve this issue rather than modify the initrd however this did not work as the network driver was already loaded before it could load the driver disk. I have a patched initrd that I can attach to this bug with the updated broadcom driver if you would find this useful.
Same problem seen on new Dell M600 blades. With the driver in 2.6.9-67.EL anaconda fails to get the network going. Also upgrading to bnx2-1.7.1d from broadcom resolves the issue