Re: Kickstart problem

[Jason Dixon <jason dixongroup net>]

On Feb 26, 2004, at 2:23 PM, Rachid BOUKHARI wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I try to make a kickstart install of Redahat7.2 on PowerEdge 2650, I've
> made a floppy bootdisk with the tg3 driver and a newest vmlinuz.
> The client machine couldn't talk to dhcp server and hangs up with the
> error: "pump told us no dhcp reply received"

Could be any number of things.  Basically, it's telling you anaconda 
can't renew the dhcp lease.  Examples of things that might cause it:

- Listing the wrong interface in ks.cfg (try eth1, if you have 2 nics)
- portfast being disabled on your switch (causes STP delays past the 
anaconda threshold)
- dhcpd not running on dhcpd/pxe server (unlikely if you already 
grabbed the initrd)
- not using the correct driver (what is your nic?)
- not having the correct driver on your ramdisk (try initrd-everything)

Just a few of the things that have bitten me over the years in our 
pxe/kickstart/nfs build environment.

--
Jason Dixon, RHCE
DixonGroup Consulting
http://www.dixongroup.net