e1000 still

[Poole, John J]

James,
     I tried the sleep 30 in the init but my "HTTP" install still fails. I hope I am not fighting another problem, but it acts just like the nfs failure. I
get a messages stating that netstg2.img could not be downloaded. When I select OK to the popup windows without changing the settings, the install continues
without failing. Thanks for the help. I wish I had had your init fix earlier it was easier than modifying imount.c and dhcp.c.
Thanks,
John


-----Original Message-----
From: James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov [mailto:James_Martin at ao.uscourts.gov]
Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 5:29 PM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: e1000 still


This is an age old problem going back to my RH 7.2 days.  It does have to 
do with span & tree and port fast and all of that stuff.  I had to summon 
my 1337 C programming skills to solve it.  Get a copy of the anaconda 
source rpm, install it, and take a look at the init.c in the loader2/ 
directory.

What I did was hard coded a 30 second sleep in there, and never had a 
problem since.  Of course after you mod it and compile it, you'll have to 
put it inito a new initrd.img.

#> diff init.c.old init.c
615a616,618
>
>     printf("sleeping 30 seconds.. thanks JSM!\n");
>     sleep(30);


in context it looks like this:

    if (!testing)
        doklog("/dev/tty4");

    /* Go into normal init mode - keep going, and then do a orderly 
shutdown
       when:

        1) /bin/install exits
        2) we receive a SIGHUP
    */


    printf("sleeping 30 seconds.. thanks JSM!\n");
    sleep(30);
    printf("running install...\n");

    setsid();


This basically forces it to sleep for whatever time you specify until 
loader is launched.  By that time, the network should be up and ready.  I 
know it's hacky, but it's worked for the past 4 years.

James


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 03/21/2005 05:01:11 PM:

> On Mon, 21 Mar 2005, Ed Brown wrote:
> 
> >It's hard to understand this position by RedHat.  Anaconda is clearly
> >NOT working as designed.
> 
> It's the error messages (or lack thereof) which annoy me. Hands up
> [virtually] whoever has been dropped to the "Language Select" screen
> after a misconfigured kickstart attempt?
> 
> It's almost enough to want to patch it...
> 
> Do spanning-tree links appear "up" to the host, before the switch
> relents and starts to forward? If not, perhaps it's possible to
> programmatically delay in a %pre script.
> 
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Phil
> 
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