Re: question about kickstart

["Boonchu Ngampairoijpibul" <bigchoo gmail com>]

Thanks Chip for response. After I read through your message. I use linux with regular bootable RHEL 4 CD. It turn out to be a problem with my two extra PCI nic cards. One of nic cards has been assigned as eth0. Multiple ethenet ports made bootable linux confusing about the port assignment. Instead of using eth0, I used eth4. It works on eth4. Then I pulled two nic cards out. Then it works on eth0 again.

-boonchu

2006/10/31, Shabazian, Chip <Chip Shabazian bankofamerica com>:

Try adding ethtool to the boot: line:

eth0_ethtool="autoneg=off speed=100 duplex=full", or eth0_ethtool="speed=1000 autoneg=on duplex=full", etc.  Also, there is a 255 character limit on the boot: line, so you may want to make sure you don't run over that. This is all you should need:

 

boot: linux linux ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX ks= http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ks/host01  eth0_ethtool="speed=1000 autoneg=on duplex=full" initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 ksdevice=eth0

 

The above of course assumes you are building off eth0.

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From: kickstart-list-bounces redhat com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces redhat com] On Behalf Of Boonchu Ngampairoijpibul
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 7:43 PM
To: kickstart-list redhat com
Subject: question about kickstart

Greeting!

I try to use network Kickstart to re-install RHEL 4 update 3 on target machine HP DL 585 G1. I encounter a problem with my network. I try with following parameters below on boot prompt to assign static IP. It does not work so far. Cicso switch is our network equipment. Kickstart server and client also reside the same subnet. I also configure Cisco switch to auto/auto and STP port fast enabled. Many changes seems not help me to get IP assigned. I also use PXE boot (F12) to boot from my DHCP server. It also fail. I just suspect to broadcom NIC card. NIC might not initialize properly and fail to reach the network.

If I use CD to install from local machine, it comes up ok with IP and reachable to network.

Can anyone have a pointer to my problem?

boot: linux ip=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway=xxx.xxx.xxxx.xxx dns=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx ksdevice=FF:FF:FF:FF:FF:FF ks=http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/ks/host01 initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 splash=silent selinux=0 npfb

boot: ip=XXX.XXX.XX.XX netmask=XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX gateway=XXX.XX.XX.X dns=XX.XXXX.XX.X ksdevice=XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX ks=file:/ks.cfg initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=10000  splash=silent selinux=0 elevator=cfq text showopts linksleep=120 eth0_ethtool="speed=100 autoneg=off duplex=full delay_link=1" nofb

psc[root srv073 root]# lspci | grep -i broadcom
02:06.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
02:06.1 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5704 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)

-boonchu

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