Fedora 7, PXE and e1000

[Lonni J Friedman]

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On 7/16/07, zyx <no-reply-gw at fcp.surfsite.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm running into some trouble installing Fedora 7 using pxeboot.
> I've searched the forum but did not find a complete answer,
> that's why i'm posting my question.
> My server has two e1000 compatible NICs. I've found some forum
> posts that explain e1000 issues with Fedora 7 but i could not verify
> that i'm having the same problem.
> I'm seeing the following:
> After anaconda starts it will request a IP using dhcp. On the dhcp
> server i see incoming requests and outgoing acks. For some reason
> anaconda can't use the network. Anaconda will give me an error
> saying that it can't access the installation tree.
>
> It looks like anaconda/dhclient doesn't pick up the ACK, or some
> thing's preventing network access. Unfortunately it's too
> early in the bootstage for me to check. (ALT-F2 doesn't have a
> shell yet) Pinging the IP address from the dhcp server results in
> 100% packetloss.
>
> When i use the same parameters in FC6 everything works smoothly.
>
> Has anyone had a similar experience?
>
> Best regards,
> Peter
>
>
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