NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[Ryan Golhar]

Yes, I'm having the same problem.  It fails initially, but the kickstart
prompts me for a new location.  I just press Enter to accept the old one
and it proceeds to mount the nfs share.  I've already submitted a report
on bugzilla on this: 117748
 
 

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Ryan Golhar
Computational Biologist
The Informatics Institute at
The University of Medicine & Dentistry of NJ

Phone: 973-972-5034
Fax: 973-972-7412
Email: golharam at umdnj.edu 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Robertson
Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:05 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers


I believe this is probably an anaconda problem but since it only shows
up when I'm trying
to do kickstart I will send it here.
 
Question:  
Has anyone has been successful in running kickstart via NFS through an
Intel 82546EB network interface?
 
I'm fighting a problem getting kickstart to run with these NICs (using
NFS).  
It appears to be related to the NIC in use.
 
I have setup a PXE install environment using NFS to hold a copy of the
installation tree (created
by copying all of the contents of all of the CDs for a given version of
linux).  I can do interactive installs
with RH9, Fedora Core 1, Core 2/test 1-3, as well as others.  These
installs work without incident on
all hardware I've tried so far.
 
The problem comes in when I try to use kickstart instead of doing the
interactive installs on a machine
that uses the Intel 82546EB Gigabit ethernet chipset.  When the
installation gets to a point where it 
needs to access NFS (for the kickstart file or for the installation) at
which time it reports that NFS 
has failed and tries to load from CD (according to the ALT-F3 screen)
then halts.  I have tried this on 
several Dell 1600sc and a SuperMicro 6013P-T with the same results.
 
I added a 3COM 3C905C-TX card to the Dell 1600sc and configured the bios
so I could install from 
that card via PXE.  The kickstart installation runs just fine with this
nic - no other changes.
 
I've tried several suggestions - I used a 3COM 3C39036 switch (instead
of the netgear Gb), I've 
connected two computers directly with a crossover cable (no switch) but
cannot get kickstart to
run when using the Intel 82546EB Gb nic.
 
Any suggestions for isolating this (or solving it) would be welcomed.
 
Thanks,
Joe
 

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