Re: Anyone succeeded running FAI sysinfo on a DGX Spark?

>>>>> On Wed, 5 Aug 2026 16:23:37 +0200, Steffen Grunewald via linux-fai <[email protected]> said:

    > I could load kernel and initrd (for Trixie on arm64), but dracut-initqueue
    > eventually timed out after detecting four (!) network interfaces as Down:
    > enp1s0f0np0 (formerly eth0), enp1s0f1np1 (eth1), enP2p1s0f0np0 (eth2) and
    > enP2p1s0f1np1 (eth3). It entered emergency mode, but with no keyboard
    > available (no NumLock, etc.) - adding yet another does nothing.

I assume you are doing a network boot and try to mount the
nfsroot. Have you checked on the NFS server if a mount request was
sent by the DGX? Is any IP address assigned to the DGX (you can also
check this on the DHCP server side)? If not the network is not
detected probperly.

This page says you need the r8127 driver:
https://forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/has-anyone-tried-an-alternative-linux-distro/349124/21

but it should also be included in r8169. but maybe some PCI IDs are missing.

I guess you need the ubuntu kernel for nvidia, like
linux-image-6.17.0-1021-nvidia-64k_6.17.0-1021.21_arm64.deb

or similar versions. The DGX OS 7 manual says:  linux-nvidia-64k-hwe-24.04

Not sure if a Debian kernel can boot this machine.

-- 
regards Thomas