FC2 network kickstart not working

paul at rh.sbrk.co.uk paul at rh.sbrk.co.uk
Thu May 27 09:18:46 UTC 2004


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 10:12:32AM +0100, Philip Rowlands wrote:
> 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.

The NFS server isn't contacted as I can see from tcpdump. After
the DHCP request there is no traffic at all, no DNS, no arp, no
NFS, no nothing. I'll check the other consoles, maybe I missed
something.

Cheers,

Paul





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