I'm having some issues getting FAI to boot Debian Buster on an old Dell PowerEdge R210 II with Broadcom NetXTreme II interfaces. The interfaces need the bnx2 (nonfree) drivers, which I have in my nfsroot, but I don't think they're getting included in the initrd.
The necessary driver is present: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 103904 Aug 23 2019 nfsroot/usr/lib/firmware/bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw When the kernel goes to load the driver, it's failing with an "error -2". The only references I can find to this during firmware load are suggestions that the driver file isn't found. Once the boot completely fails and I end up at the initrd's emergency shell, this is what I can get from dmesg (re-typed by hand due to crappy Java console): bnx2: QLogic bnx2 Gigabit Ethernet Driver v2.2.2.6 (January 29, 2014) bnx2 0000:01:00.0 eth0: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T(C0) PCI Express found at mem c0000000, IRQ 16, node addr d4:ae:52:cd:08:19 bnx2 0000:01:00.1 eth1: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5716 1000Base-T(C0) PCI Express found at mem c0000000, IRQ 17, node addr d4:ae:52:cd:08:1a bnx2 0000:01:00.0: firmware: failed to load bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw (-2) bnx2 0000:01:00.0: Direct firmware load for bnx2/bnx2-mips-09-6.2.1b.fw failed with error -2 There's a screencap of the original text here: <https://www.dropbox.com/s/ubotjx3rngrsi5c/dracut-bnx.jpg?dl=0> Looking in /usr/lib in the emergency shell I do not find /usr/lib/firmware at all. I've added the drivers to the dracut config in nfsroot, just in case: % cat nfsroot/etc/dracut.conf.d/50-bnx2.conf add_drivers+="bnx2" The following block appears in my /etc/fai/NFSROOT file (indented here for readability): PACKAGES install-norec NONFREE firmware-bnx2 firmware-bnx2x firmware-realtek firmware-cavium firmware-misc-nonfree And I'm invoking fai-make-nfsroot as: # fai-make-nfsroot -kv -c NONFREE After running fai-make-nfsroot, it looks to me like the initrd image isn't being updated. -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 38329616 Mar 5 17:12 /opt/tftp/fai/initrd.img-4.19.0-14-amd64 Am I missing a step somewhere?
