Network kickstart weirdness

Daniel Segall dan at half-asleep.com
Mon May 23 18:44:36 UTC 2005


It could also be the 2nd nic in the server. Anaconda is completely
retarded when it comes to kickstarting a system with multiple nics. Try
connecting both nics to your kickstart lan just in case it's swapping eth0
to eth1 or something.

-Dan


> If you ask me, it's this bug:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151872
>
> But having said that, if you change the port on your switch to enable
> portFast, I predict you'll be all set.
>
> That's what we had to do.  PXE was getting an IP just fine -- it was
> Kickstart/Anaconda that was choking in this regard.
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
> P.S.  We were plugged into a Cisco Catalyst 4000(?).
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
>> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of
>> Robinson, Andrew W.
>> Sent: Monday, May 23, 2005 2:35 PM
>> 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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