Hi Terry, thank you. Both of my sites are small. One is facilitation connectivity with an 8 port BlackBox switch (not sure of the make/model, but its got no intelligence, just a straightforward switch), while my other site has a Linksys router. How would I manifest your suggestion in that environment? My problems continue. Seemingly at random a VM will kickstart build, but most of the time they still continue with the problems I've previously reports. I'm not going to have the project time to invest in another alternative solution (apache with proxy), as previously suggested. I am looking for how to troubleshoot the NFS problem. Would greatly appreciate thoughts and suggestions on what to look at, settings to put in place, etc... Thank you. R, -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET) Senior IA Engineer ProSync Technology Group, LLC www.prosync.com -----Original Message----- From: kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Terry Covill Sent: Wednesday, October 17, 2007 04:57 To: Discussion list about Kickstart Subject: RE: NFS booting problem ************************************************************************ This email and any attachments are confidential and may contain privileged information. If you are not the person for whom they are intended please return the email and then delete all material from any computer. You must not use the email or attachments for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to anyone other than the intended recipient. Any statements made by an individual in this email do not necessarily reflect the views of the Yorkshire Building Society Group. ************************************************************************ Hello Joe I have just joined this list and have been following your problem. An issue I have seen where the kickstart build stalls with DNS and NFS mount problems was a layer 2 problem. It was intermittent and was finally cured by setting the portfast option on the switch port. this reduced the delay of the switch putting the NIC's MAC address in it's MAC table. Best regards Terry Covill Technical Support Group Yorkshire Building Society __________________________________________________ >From Joe_Wulf <Joe_Wulf@xxxxxxxxx> Sent Mon 15/10/2007 00:58 To kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject NFS booting problem I've got an on again, off again problem where I can initiate a kickstart for RHEL5 (32 or 64 bit), as well as for RHEL AS4 (32 or 64 bit) and many times the NFS mount for the KS config cannot be found. Then, after numerous reboots to troubleshoot the problem, poof, the NFS mount is found and some systems get built. Nothing changed. Even reboots of the kickstart server, the Linksys router and the Mac Pro (with WinXP and VMware 6 installed) don't change that many restarts have to happen before it will somehow, magically start building. A most confusing problem and one that I need insight, advice and questions from you all on what to check so I can solve it. All help is appreciated! R, -Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET) Senior IA Engineer ProSync Technology Group, LLC www.prosync.com _______________________________________________ Kickstart-list mailing list Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
