On Friday 07 May 2004 14:05, Joe Robertson wrote: > 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. Is the module even able to load? We've seen the newer e1000 chipset boards require a newer driver from intel.com. Check your other ttys, to see if it even loads the e1000 driver. -- Jesse Keating RHCE (geek.j2solutions.net) Fedora Legacy Team (www.fedoralegacy.org) GPG Public Key (geek.j2solutions.net/jkeating.j2solutions.pub) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating
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