[syslinux] Help

Gene Cumm gene.cumm at gmail.com
Thu Jun 7 15:32:08 PDT 2012


On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:58 PM, Vanush Misha <misha at cs.nuim.ie> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Jun 2012 17:28:21 +0000 Brandon Aho
> <Brandon.Aho at northerntool.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm trying to build a new server which is an IBM e-server x3550 M3.
>> I get the server to boot to PXE and am getting the following. Bnx2:
>> Can't load firmware file bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1.fw
>
> You need to add the firmware files to the appropriate initrd image.
> This is not a pxelinux/syslinux issue, and there are different ways of
> doing it depending on the Linux distribution you are using. Have you
> already installed the Linux on the server and only trying to boot off
> the network or are you trying to boot into the installation media?

I just had this same issue on another distro (bnx2 firmware).  Once
the firmwares were findable, rmmod/modprobe solved their presence.

-- 
-Gene



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