NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[Jesse Keating]

On Friday 07 May 2004 14:05, Joe Robertson wrote:
> Question:  
> Has anyone has been successful in running kickstart via NFS through
> an Intel 82546EB network interface?
>  
> I'm fighting a problem getting kickstart to run with these NICs
> (using NFS).
> It appears to be related to the NIC in use.
>  
> I have setup a PXE install environment using NFS to hold a copy of
> the installation tree (created
> by copying all of the contents of all of the CDs for a given version
> of linux).  I can do interactive installs
> with RH9, Fedora Core 1, Core 2/test 1-3, as well as others.  These
> installs work without incident on
> all hardware I've tried so far.
>  
> The problem comes in when I try to use kickstart instead of doing the
> interactive installs on a machine
> that uses the Intel 82546EB Gigabit ethernet chipset.  When the
> installation gets to a point where it
> needs to access NFS (for the kickstart file or for the installation)
> at which time it reports that NFS
> has failed and tries to load from CD (according to the ALT-F3 screen)
> then halts.  I have tried this on
> several Dell 1600sc and a SuperMicro 6013P-T with the same results.

Is the module even able to load?  We've seen the newer e1000 chipset 
boards require a newer driver from intel.com.  Check your other ttys, 
to see if it even loads the e1000 driver.

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