> From: Jeremy Silver [mailto:jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > > Which version of Red Hat are you using? I have been > kickstarting RH8 systems using e1000 from an RH9 server since > last year without going near anaconda code. Maybe it's the > network I am using, there is just a Netgear hub between my > kickstart/dhcp/tftp server and the servers I am building. > Jeremy, I'm using Fedora Core 2. I have also tried most versions of Redhat from 8.0 up to and including RHAS-3.0 Update 2. None of the versions would run kickstart unless I connected to a specific switch configuration. See https://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-May/msg00017.html for the beginning of quite a long thread on this topic. If you are using a 100 MB switch or hub that is not managed, chances are you don't see this problem. However, the minute I connect the GB nic to a managed switch - or apparently any GB switch, I could not run kickstart. You are connected to the Netgear hub which is probably the reason you don't have a problem. I connected to a Netgear 100 MB switch and everything was OK. When I connected to a Netgear GB switch, I couldn't kickstart. By the way... the solution I used is based on a previously submitted patch to Bugzilla which was obviously never included in the code for Fedora or AS. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=110036 I removed the logMessage statements included in the patch since they broke the build/package process in Fedora Core 2 and I haven't yet tried to determine why. Joe >
