Bug#793941: ethdetect kills IPMI session on a DELL R510 server
Package: installation-reports
Severity: important
Dear Maintainers,
I can't install Jessie remotely on a Dell R510 server over IPMI, because the
IPMI session gets killed at ethdetect.
The server is very mainstream, a Dell R510 model w/ a IPMI BMC shared over a
BCM5716 NIC.
I tried an old Jessie netboot image as well as yesterday's current one from :
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/netboot.tar.gz
+ BNX2 firmware from :
http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/pool/non-free/f/firmware-nonfree/firmware-bnx2_0.44_all.deb
packed into the initrd.
The installer boots fine and asks for the language, then tries to detect
ethernet hardware and the IPMI session gets killed : timeout.
It is then impossible to reach the BMC, the IPMI dedicated IP does not respond
(ICMP confirms - it comes back after a power cycling from a PDU)
I could however check that the network interface works fine by escaping the
questions asked by the installer and starting a shell :
ip link set eno1 up # works
udhcpc -i eno1 # works, gets an ip
ping whatever # works
ethdetect # boum, big badaboum
With Wheezy, the IPMI session gets freezed for 10s (ICMP reports ~10s of packet
loss) then everything's ok.
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