I believe this is
probably an anaconda problem but since it only shows up when I'm
trying
to do kickstart I
will send it here.
Question:
Has anyone has been successful in running kickstart via NFS
through an Intel 82546EB network interface?
I'm fighting a
problem getting kickstart to run with these NICs (using NFS).
It appears to be
related to the NIC in use.
I have setup a PXE
install environment using NFS to hold a copy of the installation tree
(created
by copying all of
the contents of all of the CDs for a given version of linux). I can do
interactive installs
with RH9, Fedora
Core 1, Core 2/test 1-3, as well as others. These installs work without
incident on
all hardware I've
tried so far.
The problem comes in
when I try to use kickstart instead of doing the interactive installs on a
machine
that uses the Intel 82546EB Gigabit ethernet chipset. When the
installation gets to a point where it
needs to access NFS
(for the kickstart file or for the installation) at which time it reports that
NFS
has failed and tries
to load from CD (according to the ALT-F3 screen) then
halts. I have tried this on
several Dell 1600sc
and a SuperMicro 6013P-T with the same results.
I added a 3COM
3C905C-TX card to the Dell 1600sc and configured the bios so I could install
from
that card via
PXE. The kickstart installation runs just fine with this nic - no other
changes.
I've tried several
suggestions - I used a 3COM 3C39036 switch (instead of the netgear Gb), I've
connected two
computers directly with a crossover cable (no switch) but cannot get kickstart
to
run when using the
Intel 82546EB Gb nic.
Any suggestions for
isolating this (or solving it) would be welcomed.
Thanks,
Joe
