On Thursday 30 October 2008, Guido Günther wrote: > On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:23:31PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > > The procedure is exactly as described: you will be prompted to load > > the firmware from removable media. Anything else requires modifying > > the image, which is totally outside the scope of the manual. > > In datacenters folks might not be able to insert a removale media since > they're PXE installing via a remote console (e.g. iLO). Given that the > bnx2 is built into HP servers this isn't an unlikely situation (I know > people who already ran into it). So having a link to a generic > description that explains howto get firmware into the initrd itself > might be a good idea. We could do that after such a page exists. Altough I expect that the existing wiki pages explaining how to to modify images are already sufficient. Maybe some info about firmware could be added there. I don't currently see a need for a link, especially since the manual is frozen for release.
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