FC2 network kickstart not working

KATZKE Oliver okatzke at stadthagen.faurecia.com
Thu May 27 09:22:47 UTC 2004


> > >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.

Do you have two or more network interfaces in your system?
Maybe kickstart tries to use another device than the one
where the cable is plugged in?

Oliver





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