RE: NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

["Ryan Golhar" <ryangolhar@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Yes, I'm having the same problem.  It fails initially, but the kickstart prompts me for a new location.  I just press Enter to accept the old one and it proceeds to mount the nfs share.  I've already submitted a report on bugzilla on this: 117748

 

 

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Ryan Golhar
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-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joe Robertson
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:05 PM
To: kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

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