XCP-ng 8.3 and Dell R660 - crash during boot, halts remainder of installer process (bnxt_en?)
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@umbradark Maybe too obvious, but is your boot configuration set up to be BIOS or EUFI mode?
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Broadcom hardware never disappoints.
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@dinhngtu Thanks for the suggestion. I'll give this a shot today.
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@tjkreidl Hi, thank you for the reply. I've tried both BIOS and UEFI boot methods. No change, same driver panic during boot (which then appears to hang the subsequent systemd units).
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All - thank you for the feedback. It appears the issue is the embedded BCM5720, and not the other NICs. I was able to boot the installer and upgrade an xcp-ng 8.2.1 host by disabling the BCM5720 NICs in BIOS. We don't use the embedded NICs, so I'm tempted to just leave it disabled and move on for the time being. I'll experiment with the updated driver at a later time, as this may be needed by other users.
And yes, Broadcom always coming through with the quality products.
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@umbradark said in XCP-ng 8.3 and Dell R660 - crash during boot, halts remainder of installer process (bnxt_en?):
And yes, Broadcom always coming through with the quality products.
hahaha. True. I'm not even surprised, their drivers (and even some NIC hardware) are really shitty.
Glad you "fixed" it
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@olivierlambert I've always preferred Intel NICs.
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FYI, this NIC worked until recently. We suspect new hardware revision and/or a new firmware in it, that is causing a bug with the current XCP-ng driver.
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@olivierlambert when planning our infrastructure, Vates engineer told us to avoid Broadcom nics but to go Intel or nvidia/Mellanox.
we bought Mellanox
This is the way.
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@olivierlambert I heard back from Dell, and they suggested I should "approach Vates and have the OS validated through Dell Product Group". Has Dell ever contacted you or Vates about anything like this?
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@umbradark Nope but we'll be happy to do so.
