On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 09:35:59PM -0400, knights-of-ni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > Has anyone seen problems in the Psyche release with kickstart whereupon > the client boots up, D/L's the kernel, and initrd, runs the first stage > right up to /sbin/loader, starts Anaconda, and then the client stops > with: > > Pump reports: no DHCP response received > > While the DHCP server reports four DHCPDISCOVER / DHCPOFFER cycles > before it then fails to get the ks.cfg file? This same exact system > kickstarts flawlessly under 7.3, same hub, same server, etc., and yet > now with 8.0, it seems the kernel is doing something different. Hrm.... I saw something similar to that way back when. Ultimately, the problem was that the version of pxelinux I was using (1.63) was jacking something up so that when anaconda tried to get an IP it never saw the reply from the DHCP server. A hack to the loader.c code to make it do a couple of retries seemed to work around the problem, but the better solution was to use a later version of pxelinux. We're currently using 1.65, and I haven't seen any problems with 8.0 (or any other releases). Bug number was #56499 and a copy of a patch for the retry hack is in there in case you want to give it a shot. -- Kelley Spoon Main: 210-892-4000 Rackspace Managed Hosting Fax: 210-892-4329 112 East Pecan, Suite 600 Email: kspoon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx San Antonio, TX 78205 <http://www.rackspace.com>
