Advance Server 3 AMD64 stuck on DHCP

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 7 Jul 2004, Kfir Lavi wrote:

>Now, When anaconda is up, it try to get ip from DHCP server.
>Note that it did get ip from the server in the pxe stage, so it can talk
>with the server, but now there is a strange thing, i see that the DHCP
>server gets the request and reply to it, but the installation machine
>don't get the reply.
>I can't do manual stuff, because redhat didn't leave a shell in the
>installation (correct me if i'm wrong).
>If someone have insight for me, it'll be great.

See list archives:
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-May/msg00039.html
https://listman.redhat.com/archives/kickstart-list/2004-June/msg00042.html

And RedHat errata:
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2004-195.html

The short answer is that anaconda does not wait long enough for the DHCP
response. Use RHEL3 QU2.

Cheers,
Phil