Re: kickstart problems

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Paolo Supino  wrote / napísal(a):


On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 2:17 PM, Romeo Ninov <rninov@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:rninov@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:



    Paolo Supino  wrote / napísal(a):



        On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 8:14 AM, nate <centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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        <mailto:centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
        <mailto:centos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>> wrote:

           Paolo Supino wrote:
           > Hi Nate
           >

           > 3: After the error comes up I get the HTTP setup
        configuration
           screen with
           > the source website (in IP) and CentOS directory as I entered
           them in the
           > pxeconfiguration file and as it appears in the kickstart
           configuration file
           > and all I have to do is press the 'OK' button to continue the
           installation
           > to a successful completion.

           If that's the case the next most likely culprit is

           > url --url http://192.168.11.1/source


           Just because the PXE boot loader can download the kickstart
           config does not mean that the installation process will work
           with that NIC.

           Also I've had lots of broadcom systems not work with
        kickstart over
           the years, it's not uncommon for newer systems to have newer
           revs of the chipsets and those revs not being supported by the
           installer.

           But it sounds like in your case it does work, so I would look
           at the url above, as it likely is the cause of the problem.
        Check
           the http access logs on the server for 404s and similar errors.

           nate

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        Hi Nate

         After figuring what I was doing wrong (see previous reply
        ...) I started going through each of my systems in order to
        boot them and install CentOS 5.2 on each. For the most part it
        works, but only for the most part? Because once in a few boots
        (not machine specific) anaconda stops and either asks me what
        interface it needs to configure or fails to load 'stage2.img'
        from the web server on 192.168.11.1 <http://192.168.11.1>
        <http://192.168.11.1> ... All cables are good cables. The
        network switch is a Cisco 3750G with no configuration) and all
        the NICs are broadcom with firmware 3.8.9. <http://3.8.9.>
        <http://3.8.9.> Can you throw a guess where the problem might
        be lying (I hate inconsistencies)?


    Have you check apache logs for something. Check also the server
    messages

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Hi Romeo

  Yes I did, and nothing shows up in either access_log or error_log :-(
I just had a node that stopped asking me for IP configuration (twice) and only on the second time (checked on the server using tcpdump) did it actually try to contact the server to retrieve network configuration continue and it successfully retrieved 'stage2.img' from the web server :-(

Paolo, what about DHCP or bootp servers. Check the logs, flush ARP cache from server(s)
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