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Solarflare Server Adapter
User Guide
Driver Disks for Unattended Installations
Solarflare are preparing binary driver disks to help avoid the need to build the minimal drivers
required in unattended installations. Please contact Solarflare support to obtain these driver disks
shows the various stages of an unattended installation process:
Table 15: Installation Stages
In Control
Stages of Boot
Setup needed
BIOS
PXE code on the adapter
runs.
Adapter must be in PXE boot mode.
See
SF Boot ROM (PXE)
DHCP request from PXE (SF
Boot ROM).
DHCP server filename and next-
server options.
SF Boot ROM (PXE)
TFTP request for filename to
next-server, e.g. pxelinux.0
TFTP server.
pxelinux
TFTP retrieval of pxelinux
configuration.
pxelinux configuration on TFTP
server.
pxelinux
TFTP menu retrieval of Linux
kernel image initrd.
pxelinux configuration
Kernel, kernel command, initrd
Linux kernel/installer
Installer retrieves kickstart
configuration, e.g. via HTTP.
Kickstart/AutoYaST configuration.
Target Linux kernel
kernel reconfigures network
adapters.
DHCP server.