ASSERT network device problem

[Jon Warner]

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005 22:18:01 -0700, Greg Morgan <drkludge at cox.net> wrote:
> Philip Rowlands wrote:
> > On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Jon Warner wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'm having trouble getting kickstart running properly as part of a PXE
> >>install on RHEL3. The pxe boot seems to work fine, and the installer
> >>starts correctly, but once you try to manually start a http/ftp/nfs
> >>install it refuses to find a network driver.
> >>The nic in question is an intel e1000.
> >
> >
> > I suspect the flavour of e1000 is not known to the driver. Which RHEL3
> > update are you using? What are the PCI ids of the card (lspci)?
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Phil
> Yep.  If RHEL3 is a 2.4 kernel and the e1000 is a late model NIC, then
> this explains your problem.  Please look here
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=115212 .  The
> problem was solved for FC1 by moving to FC2 and a 2.6 kernel.  It would
> take them some work to fix it in a 2.4 kernel as noted in the bug
> report.  It was so rude when I experienced the bug ;-)
> 
> Regards,
> Greg
> 
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Thanks very much guys, you've hit the nail on the head. I downloaded
RHEL3U4 and I've just tried using the ramdisk image and boot kernel
from RHEL3U4 cd1 rather than the original RHEL3, and it's started
kickstart with no problems.