Fedora 7 Kickstart / Stage2 Issue
Phil Oester
kernel at linuxace.com
Tue Jul 31 21:41:03 UTC 2007
On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:34:56PM -0500, David Hageman wrote:
>
> I have been using kickstart to setup our computer labs for the last
> several releases of Fedora. I thought while I had some time, that I would
> implement a cobbler setup and roll out Fedora 7.
>
> I am running into an issue with kickstarting Fedora 7.
>
> I use the boot.iso to create a bootable CD which from the command line
> type in my kickstart command: ks=http://<pathtoks.cfg>
>
> Anaconda starts up, grabs an IP address, grabs the kickstart file and at
> this point attempts to re-initialize the interface using DHCP. The system
> queries via DHCP several times before it gives up and attempts to retrieve
> stage2 which fails ...
>
> I am at a loss because I watch the DHCP server logs and it sees all the
> queries and responds to each one. It is like anaconda is ignoring the
> responses.
>
> I have looked at the mailing list for previous problems and solutions and
> have even set portfast on the port in question, but it failed to help me.
>
> I have also set various other options such as noipv6 ksdevice=link
> loglevel=debug without any success.
>
> Anyone have any ideas on this?
Did you query bugzilla?
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=241783
Phil
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