FC2 network kickstart not working

Thu May 27 13:28:06 UTC 2004

I have a similar problem using kickstart using qu2 on rhel3 now.
Have you tried with the pxe kernels from this update?

-----Original Message-----
From: James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov [mailto:James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov] 
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 2004 7:23 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: FC2 network kickstart not working

Are you sending the kickstart file via DHCP or retrieving via NFS?  I've 
never had much luck retrieving it via DHCP.  My system writes the 
pxelinux.cfg files on the fly and uses syntax like:

label ks
  kernel images/rhel/3.0/as/qu1/vmlinuz
  append ksdevice=link initrd=images/rhel/3.0/as/qu1/initrd.img 
ks=nfs:156.132.110.110:/data/linux_build/kickstart/seahawk.imd.lab/ks.cfg 
lang= lowres devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192

James S. Martin, RHCE
Contractor
Administrative Office of the United States Courts
Washington, DC
(202) 502-2394

kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/27/2004 05:04:46 AM:

> 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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