We had this very problem with Red Hat 7.3. I believe that this is due to a problem with the NFS version 3 code in the installer. The installer thinks that it is making the mount call, but there is no traffic to the Tru64 Unix 5.1a server. It worked fine for us under Red Hat 6.2 and 7.1 and we'd hoped that this would have been fixed by Red Hat 8.0. Perhaps by Red Hat 8.1? We were forced into doing floppy-based kickstarts. Ugh. Carl Carl G. Riches Software Engineer Department of Mathematics Box 354350 voice: 206-543-5082 or 206-616-3636 University of Washington fax: 206-543-0397 Seattle, WA 98195-4350 internet: riches@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Graham Allan wrote: > I'm having an issue where an NFS-based Kickstart install fails at a > very early point when using Redhat 8.0. > > We're booting from the bootnet floppy and using "linux ks" to get IP > information from DHCP, and the kickstart file and installation tree over > NFS from a Tru64 Unix 5.1A server. > > This has worked fine with Redhat 6.2 and 7.2, but with 8.0, the NFS > access simply seems to fail outright. It's hard to tell *exactly* where > the problem is, since the only real message is "install exited > abnormally". The very last message on the "alt-f3" screen is: > > ks server: 128.101.xxx.xxx:/export/linux/redhat/kickstart file: > 128.101.xxx.xxx-kickstart > > so it's at the point of looking for the config file, but the NFS server > never shows any mount attempt. > > Now, if I put the kickstart config file on the floppy, still with an > NFS installation defined, and boot with "linux ks=floppy", it still > fails. But if I then alter the floppy's ks.cfg to install from an FTP > server instead, it works! > > Then, just to add to the confusion, after the FTP installation has > completed, the now-running Redhat 8.0 system can mount both the > installation tree and config file area from the Tru64 NFS server with > no problem. > > So I can only guess there's some issue with the bootnet disk's NFS > client and its interaction with the Tru64 NFS server, but I don't > really know where to go from here. I'd be grateful for any ideas! > > Thanks, > > Graham > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Graham Allan > School of Physics and Astronomy - University of Minnesota > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list >
