It was my big mystery too - until I realized that the devil was in our
switch. The PXE seems to send a few "up/down" signals to our switch so
it finds DHCP rather "fast" ... 2-4 seconds. However, once booted and
the RH installer runs through the same steps, the switch is taking
forever to reset/open the port. This results in a time-out, and
kickstart asking for network information - it assumes something is wrong.
My "solution" is no more than just hitting "ok" when being asked for
network information, and on the second try our switch has finally gotten
around to opening up again, and things work.
I don't know if that helps you - it's not a fool proof situation; but in
our cases we only use Kickstart to build a baseline system on new boxes.
So it's no big deal to us.
Regards
Peter Larsen
Dan Peterson wrote:
We ran into this as well. It seems to be a problem with the E1000 adaptor
(which the 2650 and 1850 [and others] are sporting). Check out
http://www.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2005-March/msg00087.html
We modified init.c as described in that note; rebuilt loader and put it back
in the initrd.img. Problem solved. Not clean, not pretty, but effective!
If you need more detailed steps let me know.
Dan Peterson.
-----Original Message-----
From: Robinson, Andrew W. [mailto:andrew.w.robinson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 11:35 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Network kickstart weirdness
I think I have encountered this problem before, but cannot remember the
solution. I am trying to perform a network kickstart on a Dell PE 2650
server. The OS is RHEL 3 U4. No matter how I try this, the client seems not
to recognize that the kickstart file is present. It always asks for network
information. The system successfully obtained an address through dhcp for
the pxe-boot, but then it cannot seem to get an address to start the
installation process. I am perplexed. I do not know if this is a network
problem, a problem with the kickstart file, or maybe a problem with
anaconda. Can anyone suggest any clues that might enable me to figure out
what is wrong?
Thanks!
Andrew Robinson
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