pxe on IBM x366

Egan Ford egan at sense.net
Wed Mar 8 21:02:40 UTC 2006


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> [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of 
> GABRIEL KAPITANY
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2006 12:26 PM
> To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
> Subject: pxe on IBM x366 
> 
> 
> Hi guys,
> 
> I have a problem trying to use pxe and nfs install on
> an IBM x366 box. I'd like to mention that I have this
> configuration working on a different hardware.
> 
> The server boots using pxe but when in tries to do an
> nfs mount it times out.
> 
> Here are the messages on the client (Alt+F3):
> 
> - eth1 has link, using it
> - doing kickstart... setting it up
> - waiting for link...
> - 2 seconds
> - reverse name lookup failed
> - url is 192.168.1.10:/images/AS3.0U6-x366/kslapp.cfg
> - file location:
> nfs://192.168.1.10:/images/AS3.0U6-x366/kslapp.cfg
> - failed to mount nfs source
> - trying to mount device hda
> 
> At this point I'm prompted for the type of install and
> if I choose nfs then it works fine but I'm not able to
> use kickstart....
> 
> On the pxe server in the logs I can see:
> 
> tftp: client does not accept options
> 
> The pxe configuration for this box is:
> 
> default RHEL-AS3.0U6-x366
> 
> label RHEL-AS3.0U6-x366
>     kernel RHEL-AS3.0U6-x366/vmlinuz
>     append initrd=RHEL-AS3.0U6-x366/initrd.img 
> ramdisk_size=7000
> ks=nfs:192.168.1.10:/images/AS3.0U6-x366/kslapp.cfg
> ksdevice
> =link
> ipappend 1
> 
> Any help would be appreciated,
> Thx,
> 
> Gabriel 
> 
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