FC2 network kickstart not working

Philip Rowlands phr at doc.ic.ac.uk
Thu May 27 09:12:32 UTC 2004


On Thu, 27 May 2004 paul at rh.sbrk.co.uk wrote:

>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?

Look to the other virtual consoles for error messages (Alt+F2, Alt+F3
etc.), and at the log output of the NFS server itself
(/var/log/messages) to see whether/why the mount is failing.


Cheers,
Phil





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