Xavi, Have you looked at the ALT-F3/F4 screens to see an error regarding the find the ks.cfg file? If the Red Hat install kernel/initrd are loaded TFTP and PXE are working, so next is NFS: are you able to mount the NFS volume from another machine and grab the file with the path specified in your defaults file? I see you are selecting ks.cfg file with IP number information - is the booting machine requesting the correct ks.cfg file? -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Xavier Fustero Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:08 AM To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: tftp problem Hi, I am trying to use kickstart on IBM e-servers (blades hs20, type 8678) with GigaEthernet broadcom bcm5700. I readed all documentation to install this with PXE-kickstart. Actually I started to play on that but I don't success. I got it working from a floppy but when I try to run automatically on network it fails. ** dhcp: I have a dhcp server running on an alpha server. It works and provide the ip to any of our machines. dhcp.conf for the blades: ----------------- group { use-host-decl-names on; %%CLASS_ENTRY_BEGIN web-blades host %HOSTNAME% { hardware ethernet %HW-ADDRESS%; fixed-address %HOSTNAME%; next-server my_SERVER; filename "pxelinux.0"; Actually, if I change the sort of the last two lines it doesn't boot(?). ** PXE /tftpboot: default.netboot-7.3 initrd.img pxelinux.0 pxelinux.cfg vmlinuz X86PC /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg: CB1EG... (hexadec. link to default.netboot-7.3) default default.netboot-7.3 default.netboot-7.3 contains: label ks kernel vmlinuz append ksdevice=eth1 ks=nfs:my_nfs_server:/whatever/ip_number-kickstart initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 ** tftp: tftp-server-0.29-3 server_args = -s /tftpboot or server_args = -c -s /tftpboot ** ks.cfg ... url --url http://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.3/en/iso/i386 ... When I boot the blade, it gets the ip from my dhcp, the PXE message appears on the screen and it starts to boot the vmlinuz and the initr. However, the ks doesn't seems to be read because it starts the installation asking: Choose a language,...... so I have to make all the installation process manually. I look on my /var/log/messages from the master machine (pxe, tftp and nfs server) and I got the following message: ..... in.tftpd[9095]: tftp: client does not accept options Can someone help me on this issue? Thanks a lot, Xavi -- Xavier Fustero Benavent Work:+44(0)1223 494664 Fax: +44(0)1223 494468 _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
