[openib-general] PXE + infiniband?

[Rene Salmon]

Hi,

We are also interested in either PXE or etherboot over IB.
We also run LinuxBIOS.  If anyone manages to get this working can you 
post some notes maybe a wiki or a howto.


thanks
Rene




Cain, Brian (GE Healthcare) wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openib-general-bounces at openib.org 
>> [mailto:openib-general-bounces at openib.org] On Behalf Of Paul Baxter
>> Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:29 AM
>> To: openib-general at openib.org; Eli cohen
>> Subject: Re: [openib-general] PXE + infiniband?
>>
>>>> There is an implementation of PXE for Mellanox's HCAs that 
>> can be found
>>>> here: http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?forum_id=494529
>>> Thanks for the tip
>>>
>>> I, too, am interested in this.
>>>
>>> Do you have a more direct link as I wandered around 
>> etherboot's project 
>>> site
>>> and couldn't find anything IB-specific.
>>
>> I must have been having a 'special moment' before, because I 
>> couldn't find 
>> the mailing lists
>>
>> Here they are!
>>
>> http://sourceforge.net/search/?ml_name=etherboot-developers&ty
>> pe_of_search=mlists&group_id=4233&words=infiniband 
> 
> I was able to follow the procedure outlined in Eli's README and I
> achieved some mixed results.  On one hand, lspci now shows "Expansion
> ROM at ed700000 [disabled] [size=1M]" whereas it didn't indicate that
> before ("disabled" means it's zeroed out, maybe?).  The BIOS seems to
> confirm the whole disabled thing since it doesn't list the HCA in the
> boot priority list.
> 
> After making this change, IPoIB seems to work via this HCA, but SRP
> (initiation, anyways) no longer does.  "ibsrpdm -c" no longer produces
> any output, even though I can see the target via the ibnetdiscover.
> Accessing the SRP target from another host on the fabric works fine.
> 
> -Brian
> 
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