FC2 network kickstart not working

paul at rh.sbrk.co.uk paul at rh.sbrk.co.uk
Thu May 27 09:04:46 UTC 2004


Hi,

I've configured DHCP and PXE for a network kickstart install. DHCP
works, pxe works, the kernel (from images/pxeboot) and initrd.img
load, I've passed the ks option as a boot parameter, the machine
sends a DHCP request, gets a response, but then makes no attempt
to contact the NFS server for a ks.cfg file. Any idea what's
missing? I'm not passing any argument to ks, therefore I believe
it should be passing default parameters to the NFS server (192.168.8.2
below).

Here's the response from my DHCP server for the anaconda DHCP
request:

08:30:26.893575 0:0:39:89:be:15 0:6:1b:da:fe:b9 ip 342: 192.168.8.1.bootps > 192.168.8.10.bootpc: [udp sum ok]  xid:0xee401bda secs:768 Y:192.168.8.10 S:192.168.8.2 sname "hut2" file "/kickstart/" vend-rfc1048 DHCP:ACK SID:81.2.102.1 LT:0 SM:255.255.255.0 NS:192.168.8.1 DN:"sbrk.co.uk" BR:192.168.8.255 HN:"pxetest" [tos 0x10]  (ttl 16, id 0, len 328)

After this no network traffic is seen and anaconda goes into an
interactive install.

Paul





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