Is this your problem: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114092 Tom On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Joe Robertson wrote: > Andy, > > What kind of ethernet NIC do you have? (e1000 driver?) > > I've been fighting this problem for quite some time - trying > to get kickstart via NFS to work. > > I finally found a solution!!!! > > It requires changing anaconda and rebuilding the entire > distribution. I'll be reporting on this as soon as I > am confident in the accuracy of the method. > > Basically it requires checking for failures in such things > as attempting an NFS mount (or in your example getting > a DHCP lease) and trying again (perhaps multiple times) if > the initial attempts fail. > > Granted, this seems like a patch but I'm not sure what the > 'correct' solution should be. It does seem that this is > going to work for me - at least to get kickstart going. > > Having said that, there are still failures obtaining the > IP address via PXE during boots subsequent to the install. > I haven't determined what to do to resolve this yet.
