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freaky87
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:00 am Posts: 6
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 X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
Hello guy's,
I'm using vmware server for a long time now so, i wanted to migrated to esxi. But i have a couple of big problems.
my hardware
Supermicro motherboard X7DVL with Intel® (ESB2/Gilgal) 82563EB Dual-port Gigabit Ethernet Controller areca ARC-1110 raid controller
When i install exi 4 to a flash disk evrything went fine. Only my raid controller is'nt reconised.
So i decided to make an iso with the custom.tgz from the areca ftp. Evrything goes fine until he needs to load the nic driver i guess. because suddenly i got the error "lvm driver failed to load"
But without the oem.tgz for the areca driver the nic does work! what am i doing wrong? Thanks
ps: i realy love the mkesxiaio script!
Last edited by freaky87 on Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:18 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:09 am |
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Varazir
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm Posts: 455 Location: Sweden
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
freaky87 wrote: ps: i realy love the mkesxiaio script! Welcome and thanks, is there anything you like to have fixed in just say so. I haven't done anything to the script for some time now. Rgd Daniel
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:58 am |
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freaky87
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:00 am Posts: 6
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
Varazir wrote: freaky87 wrote: ps: i realy love the mkesxiaio script! Welcome and thanks, is there anything you like to have fixed in just say so. I haven't done anything to the script for some time now. Rgd Daniel do you have any idea why mij nic'driver doensn't work when i use the areca drivers for my raid controller?
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:29 am |
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Varazir
Joined: Wed Mar 18, 2009 1:32 pm Posts: 455 Location: Sweden
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
freaky87 wrote:
do you have any idea why mij nic'driver doensn't work when i use the areca drivers for my raid controller?
Sorry I don't , I just made the tool to make the custom installation media. I haven't looked into the custom files them self. Rgd Daniel
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Sun Jul 26, 2009 11:51 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:13 pm Posts: 3880
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
>> But without the oem.tgz for the areca driver the nic does work! what am i doing wrong?
It may be that the simple.map in the oem.tgz isn't quite up to date to list the NIC for you. When you boot with the oem.tgz file and then access teh console, are you able to see a module listed for the NIC (i.e. run lspci - p)?
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 12:22 am |
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freaky87
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:00 am Posts: 6
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
no i can't get into the shell at that moment. without the oem.tgz i get this in lspci:   can you do something with this info? the oem.tgz i normaly use is in the attachment thanks a lot!
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 2:19 am |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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Joined: Mon Mar 16, 2009 10:13 pm Posts: 3880
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The simple.map file you have in the oem.tgz file is trying to load the e1000 driver. Looks like you'll want to change that to load the e1000e driver instead.
8086:108a 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:108b 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:108c 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1096 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1098 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1099 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:109a 0000:0000 network e1000
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Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:25 pm |
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freaky87
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:00 am Posts: 6
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
Dave.Mishchenko wrote: The simple.map file you have in the oem.tgz file is trying to load the e1000 driver. Looks like you'll want to change that to load the e1000e driver instead.
8086:108a 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:108b 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:108c 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1096 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1098 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:1099 0000:0000 network e1000 8086:109a 0000:0000 network e1000 do i need to delete these lines from the simple.map? my esxi server is up and running! thank you guys
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Tue Jul 28, 2009 1:00 am |
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freaky87
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:00 am Posts: 6
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
hey guy's an other question,
is it safe to update my esxi box? with this changes?
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Tue Dec 22, 2009 2:33 pm |
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Dave.Mishchenko
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 Re: X7DVL areca ARC-111 installation troubles
An update won't touch oem.tgz (it'll get copied from /bootbank to /altbootbank which then becomes the new bootbank). At some point ESXi might include the driver so it's worth checking to see if at some point you can drop your oem.tgz file.
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