RHEL3 NFS based kickstart dies with 'install exited abnormally -- received signal 11'

[Taylor, ForrestX]

On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 12:20, Oktay Altunergil wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having a problem with kickstarting using NFS on Enterprise 3.0 
> (update 1). I will try to describe the problem in detail.
> 
> Our setup uses NFS for both the kickstart config file and the rpm 
> packages. We have /usr/local/export exported with ro,no_root_squash. 
> This directory contains the directories 'config' and 'redhat'. Our 
> kickstart configuration is in config/ks.cfg. Inside the redhat directory 
> we have everything in the binary CDs copied so it looks like 
> /usr/local/export/redhat/RedHat.

You definitely do not need the no_root_squash, especially if you share
it ro.

This may be a red herring.  I would try two things:

1.  Put your kickstart on floppy and use ks=floppy at the boot prompt.

2.  Move the config directory into the redhat directory, so your
syslinux.cfg line will be something like this:
  append ks=nfs:10.2.2.1:/usr/local/export/redhat/config/ks.cfg...

Forrest