Has anyone seen an issue with RedHat not being able to do a kickstart
from a Solaris (5.6) NFS server? Specifically we're booting from floppy
with a "ks.cfg" file on the floppy itself that points to NFS mount the
RedHat distribution from our Solaris fileserver. If we use the exact
same disk and modify it to take the distribution from an NFS mount of a
Linux box it works fine.
The symptom when it fails is that it boots and then instead of
completing the kickstart it falls to the standard set of input requests
with CTRL-ALT-F1 showing the last attempted thing was the NFS mount of
the distribution. The NFS mount attempt through a "snoop" appears to be
working properly though:
dhcp33-vlan1.coat.com -> foo.coat.com MOUNT3 C Mount
/export/auto/Linux_i86/7.0/redhat/7.0
foo.coat.com -> dhcp33-vlan1.coat.com MOUNT3 R Mount OK FH=43E1
Auth=unix
but I suspect the boot image doesn't like something about the reply
(don't know). It might be a something it doesn't like about the portmap
response as well since it seems to enumerate registered RPCs during the
mount request. V3 NFS is supported on this server. RedHat 6.2 has no
problem kickstarting from the same server and filesystem. RedHat 7.0
systems don't seem have a problem mounting the directory after being
installed. I don't think it's a problem on the server side.
If we follow the manual prompts and use the same mount point it *also*
fails (says cannot mount the directory) so it's more of a generic
install issue than specific to kickstart (but I don't have a better
place to send this).
Thanks,
- Matt
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