NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[Michael Blandford]

Joe Robertson wrote:

>I have worked on isolating this by building a new initrd.img file (with
>help thanks to Richard Black) that can run a bash script in place of
>the binary /linuxrc that is in the initial file.  I tried loading the
>e1000.ko file then adding a delay.  I got all of this working - as
>evidenced
>by output to the console.  However, anaconda ignores this and
>reloads the e1000.ko file later - just before it declares an NFS
>failure.
>  
>
Make sure portfast is enabled on your switch.  I know that causes us 
problems on gig cards if it isn't.

Michael


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