On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:18:01 -0700, Greg Morgan <drkludge@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Philip Rowlands wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jon Warner wrote: > > > > > >>I'm having trouble getting kickstart running properly as part of a PXE > >>install on RHEL3. The pxe boot seems to work fine, and the installer > >>starts correctly, but once you try to manually start a http/ftp/nfs > >>install it refuses to find a network driver. > >>The nic in question is an intel e1000. > > > > > > I suspect the flavour of e1000 is not known to the driver. Which RHEL3 > > update are you using? What are the PCI ids of the card (lspci)? > > > > > > Cheers, > > Phil > Yep. If RHEL3 is a 2.4 kernel and the e1000 is a late model NIC, then > this explains your problem. Please look here > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115212 . The > problem was solved for FC1 by moving to FC2 and a 2.6 kernel. It would > take them some work to fix it in a 2.4 kernel as noted in the bug > report. It was so rude when I experienced the bug ;-) > > Regards, > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list > Thanks very much guys, you've hit the nail on the head. I downloaded RHEL3U4 and I've just tried using the ramdisk image and boot kernel from RHEL3U4 cd1 rather than the original RHEL3, and it's started kickstart with no problems.
