No network drivers for doing kickstart

[Shabazian, Chip]

I have had issues in the past where a newer initrd worked, but for many reasons, we had to stay with the build based off an older version.  In these cases, I found that you could replace the loader in the older initrd with the loader from the newer one, and all was fine.

If you still want to build with the latest to minimize packages that need to be upgraded, you could give this a shot.

Chip 

-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Elizabeth.Brosch at thomson.com
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 7:27 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: No network drivers for doing kickstart

Thanks Phil for the reply.  I am using RHEL 4 Update 2.  I was thinking about going to either Update 3 or reverting back to RHEL 4 w/out updates.  I began to think that the vmlinuz and the initrd for this release was missing something that is causing my problems.  I don't suspect it has anything to do with timing (switches, etc) but I could be wrong.  I am going to attempt Kickstart with another release and see if that solves my problem.  

Liz Brosch
TSH System Services
Philadelphia, PA  19104
office:  (215) 386-0100 x1144
cell:     (267) 784-9166
-----Original Message-----
From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Phil Bettinson
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 10:04 AM
To: Discussion list about Kickstart
Subject: Re: No network drivers for doing kickstart

Hello again,

I have also experienced a similar problem, this seems to be with a problem (for me at least) with the tg3 driver with Redhat As 3 update 6, a problem we didn't have (and don't have) if we just use Redhat AS 3 (with no updates). This seems to be more of a problem with the vmlinuz and the initrd for this release. As we didn't want ot re-build these, we went back to using RedHat AS 3, which works.

I note, however that in RedHat AS 3 update 7, there has been an update to this driver. I'm busy downloading the Isos so I can give it a go with that, and see if it works.

Phil (again)

Phil Bettinson wrote:
> Morning,
> 
> Your issue might possibly be because of the switch that the machines 
> are connected too. Some (newer?) switches do some negotiations and 
> speed tests before clearing the port for use, this can cause the DHCP 
> to time out (as the network request doesn't get further than the 
> port). I've had this problem on a few machines here, but our network 
> engineer simply removed or decreased the timing for the port (sorry 
> for the vague answer, but I havn't seen the operation myself yet), and 
> that seemed to solve the problem
> 
> Hope that Helps,
> 
> Phil
> 
> Elizabeth.Brosch at thomson.com wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for reply.  I don't know what my issue is but I am unable to 
>> get past it.
>> Liz Brosch
>> TSH System Services
>> Philadelphia, PA  19104
>> office:  (215) 386-0100 x1144
>> cell:     (267) 784-9166
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
>>
>> We have not seen that error in the course of installing dozens of rh3 
>> and rh4 instances on both dl380 and dl585 machines.  We have had 
>> trouble with the DHCP/PXE/tftp exchange failing due to too much lag 
>> time in the repsonse.
>>
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