Issue with Aquiring DHCP

[Tom Diehl]

Is this your problem:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=114092

Tom

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Joe Robertson wrote:

> Andy,
> 
> What kind of ethernet NIC do you have? (e1000 driver?)
> 
> I've been fighting this problem for quite some time - trying
> to get kickstart via NFS to work.
> 
> I finally found a solution!!!!
> 
> It requires changing anaconda and rebuilding the entire 
> distribution.  I'll be reporting on this as soon as I 
> am confident in the accuracy of the method.
> 
> Basically it requires checking for failures in such things
> as attempting an NFS mount (or in your example getting
> a DHCP lease) and trying again (perhaps multiple times) if
> the initial attempts fail.  
> 
> Granted, this seems like a patch but I'm not sure what the
> 'correct' solution should be.  It does seem that this is 
> going to work for me - at least to get kickstart going.
> 
> Having said that, there are still failures obtaining the
> IP address via PXE during boots subsequent to the install.
> I haven't determined what to do to resolve this yet.