Diskless clients booting with bnx2 drivers panics at network initialisation when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3

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Issue

  • On RHEL5.3 , using BCM5709S network cards , a diskless server fails and panics while initializing the network services.
  • The pxe environment starts , receives a IP address from the DHCP, retrieves the kernel and initrd image from the TFTP server and starts booting. During the network service initialization the kernel panics.

Environment

  • RHEL 5.3
  • Broadcom 5709S cards using bnx2 drivers.

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