James,
I tried the sleep 30 in the init but my "HTTP" install still fails. I hope I am not fighting another problem, but it acts just like the nfs failure. I
get a messages stating that netstg2.img could not be downloaded. When I select OK to the popup windows without changing the settings, the install continues
without failing. Thanks for the help. I wish I had had your init fix earlier it was easier than modifying imount.c and dhcp.c.
Thanks,
John
-----Original Message-----
From: James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:James_Martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 5:29 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: e1000 still
This is an age old problem going back to my RH 7.2 days. It does have to
do with span & tree and port fast and all of that stuff. I had to summon
my 1337 C programming skills to solve it. Get a copy of the anaconda
source rpm, install it, and take a look at the init.c in the loader2/
directory.
What I did was hard coded a 30 second sleep in there, and never had a
problem since. Of course after you mod it and compile it, you'll have to
put it inito a new initrd.img.
#> diff init.c.old init.c
615a616,618
>
> printf("sleeping 30 seconds.. thanks JSM!\n");
> sleep(30);
in context it looks like this:
if (!testing)
doklog("/dev/tty4");
/* Go into normal init mode - keep going, and then do a orderly
shutdown
when:
1) /bin/install exits
2) we receive a SIGHUP
*/
printf("sleeping 30 seconds.. thanks JSM!\n");
sleep(30);
printf("running install...\n");
setsid();
This basically forces it to sleep for whatever time you specify until
loader is launched. By that time, the network should be up and ready. I
know it's hacky, but it's worked for the past 4 years.
James
James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394
kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx wrote on 03/21/2005 05:01:11 PM:
> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Ed Brown wrote:
>
> >It's hard to understand this position by RedHat. Anaconda is clearly
> >NOT working as designed.
>
> It's the error messages (or lack thereof) which annoy me. Hands up
> [virtually] whoever has been dropped to the "Language Select" screen
> after a misconfigured kickstart attempt?
>
> It's almost enough to want to patch it...
>
> Do spanning-tree links appear "up" to the host, before the switch
> relents and starts to forward? If not, perhaps it's possible to
> programmatically delay in a %pre script.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Phil
>
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