NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

[Rebecca.R.Hepper at seagate.com]

I am seeing the same issue with RH 9 & an e1000 module I compiled under the
2.4.20-6BOOT kernel.  I am kickstarting via a USB flash drive.  When
kickstart tries to mount the NFS server, I receive an error "That directory
could not be mounted from the server".  If I hit 'OK' to accept the NFS
Setup information it proceeds to mount the NFS server.  Should I add my
information to bugzilla 117748?



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Yes, I'm having the same problem.  It fails initially, but the kickstart
prompts me for a new location.  I just press Enter to accept the old one
and it proceeds to mount the nfs share.  I've already submitted a report on
bugzilla on this: 117748




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Ryan Golhar
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The Informatics Institute at
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      -----Original Message-----
      From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
      [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Joe Robertson
      Sent: Friday, May 07, 2004 5:05 PM
      To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
      Subject: NFS kickstart fails with e1000.ko drivers

      I believe this is probably an anaconda problem but since it only
      shows up when I'm trying
      to do kickstart I will send it here.

      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.

      I added a 3COM 3C905C-TX card to the Dell 1600sc and configured the
      bios so I could install from
      that card via PXE.  The kickstart installation runs just fine with
      this nic - no other changes.

      I've tried several suggestions - I used a 3COM 3C39036 switch
      (instead of the netgear Gb), I've
      connected two computers directly with a crossover cable (no switch)
      but cannot get kickstart to
      run when using the Intel 82546EB Gb nic.

      Any suggestions for isolating this (or solving it) would be welcomed.

      Thanks,
      Joe
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