Hi jeremy,
Jeremy Silver wrote:
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?
The nfs is working fine. As you suggested, I can mount the directory
from another machine and grab the ks file.
The problem is that the kernel load without this specific network card
driver. I have been trying to hack the initrd.img to have the bcm5700
module in it but still goes wrong...
-Xavi
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[mailto:kickstart-list-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Xavier Fustero
Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 9:08 AM
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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
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