Cannot install controller-1 via pxe: bnx2x: Direct firmware load failed with error -2

[Pratik M.]

Brief Description
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AIO-DX R4.0. Cannot install controller-1. Seems the bnx2x firmware load fails. Pl see the attached screenshot of console.

Direct firmware load for bnx2x-bnxZ2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw failed with error -2
Can’t load firmware file bnx.fw failed with error —2
Can’t load firmware file bnx2x/bnx2x-e2-7.13.11.0.fw
Error loading firmware
HW init failed, aborting

After which I get a bunch of:
dracut—initqueue: cat /sys/class/net/eno51/carrier: Invalid argument

And install drops to dracut shell.

NIC is HP 536FLB which is QLogic 57840. Server is HP BL465c

In R3.0, I had a different issue w/ the same NIC, but I could apply a work around and continue.
http://lists.starlingx.io/pipermail/starlingx-discuss/2020-August/009371.html

I have no issue installing CentOS7 using pxe, with the same server

Severity
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<Critical: System/Feature is not usable due to the defect>

Reproducibility
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100% Reproducible

System Configuration
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AIO-DX bare metal on a HPC7000

Branch/Pull Time/Commit
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R4.0

Last Pass
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R3.0

[Ghada Khalil (gkhalil)]

This appears to be an stx.4.0 regression. Driver issues w/ Broadcom

[Ghada Khalil (gkhalil)]

Assigning to the OS/Distro PL for follow-up

[Nick Wilson (nickwilson)]

Also ran into this, a quick workaround is to regenerate the initrd with the missing modules:
mkdir ~/tmp && cd ~/tmp
xz -dc < /pxeboot/rel-20.06/installer-intel-x86-64-initrd_1.0 | cpio -idmv
cp -R /usr/lib/firmware/bnx2* usr/lib/firmware/
find . | cpio -o -H newc | xz --check=crc32 --x86 --lzma2=dict=512KiB > /pxeboot/rel-20.06/installer-intel-x86-64-initrd_1.0

[Ghada Khalil (gkhalil)]

screening: Closing as stx.4.0 is EOL