Problems kickstarting 1955 blades?

[Tom Brown]

> We have a fairly large installation of 1855 blades and have been happily 
> kickstarting them with CentOS 4 (using PXE) for a while now.  Recently 
> we got a couple of chassis of 1955s, and have been trying to kickstart 
> them with the same method and have run in to some problems.  The initial 
> PXE boot works, it downloads the image/kernel and starts to boot, then 
> when the loader comes up it hangs on "Sending request for IP information 
> for eth1", and eventually times out.  We see this sometimes on 1855s, 
> but then we try again and it works the second or third time.  With the 
> 1955s we see no traffic on the switch at all no matter how many times we 
> try, and we're wondering if it has something to do with the drivers for 
> the NIC or something similar.  We tried on CentOS 4.3, then went to 4.4 
> when we had problems, and just tried Fedora Core 6 all with no luck.  
> Any tips would be appreciated.

2 issues - the NIC's are supported in more recent kernels so make sure 
your kix is up2date - also and this was the gotcha for me the NIC orders 
are reversed so i was putting the port into our kix VLAN on switch 1 but 
you have to configure switch 2 !

let me know how you get on