<html xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 11 (filtered medium)"> <style>  </style> </head> <body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple> <div class=Section1> I'm having an issue with two new machines we just installed. The machines are Sun Blade x6250 modules with Intel e1000 NICs. When trying to kickstart them using PXE, RHEL3-U8 and RHEL4-U4 both come back with the following error while trying to grab the kickstart file:<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> 'pump told us: No DHCP reply received'<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> I've done some searching and come up with a few options to try. The network folks were kind enough to enable 'spanning-tree portfast' on the ports the servers are on, which did speed up the time in which the ports were enabled. I've also tried setting ksdevice as the MAC of the NIC I need to boot from as well as used the nicdelay/linksleep options to workaround whatever timeout is happening.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Just for kicks, I decided to try installing RHEL5, which much to my chagrin, worked perfectly.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Michael DeHaan helped me out a bit in the #kickstart channel on freenode, but suggested I post to the list for a wider audience. Any help on this would be much appreciated.<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Thanks,<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p> Darrick<o:p></o:p> </div> </body> </html>