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[Aaron M Morrison]

SSTinsley at upsfreight.com;
Apologies if I've missed part of the thread, but 
does the hardware you are attempting to pxeboot/ks have more than one
nic?
Sometimes you need to put --dev=eth(N) as the install kernel might probe
and set up the device in a different order than the bios...

bios device 1 might show up as eth(N) to the installer...

so you can get a ip via pxeboot, download installer, etc, but anaconda
set's up eth0 as the other nic, so it times out...
using --dev=eth(N) usually fixes this.

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:12 -0400, SSTinsley at upsfreight.com wrote:
> 
> 
> kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/17/2007 08:46:19 AM:
> 
> > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 07:20 -0400, SSTinsley at upsfreight.com wrote:
> > > kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com wrote on 05/16/2007 08:28:48 PM:
> > > > The reason you can get an IP and PXEboot is because the NIC is
> up
> > > for
> > > > more than 30 seconds, which gives the switch time to negotiate
> with
> > > the
> > > > NIC and turn up the port.  When anaconda starts, it recycles the
> NIC
> > > (to
> > > > load the driver).  If you have portfast issues, anaconda will
> > > timeout
> > > > before your switch makes the port live.
> > > > 
> > > > Ananacoda will also recycle the NIC one more time after it gets
> the
> > > > ks.cfg, but that one never causes portfast timeout issues.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I here what your saying. I took your suggestion to the network
> guys
> > > and they confirmed the 
> > > switch is configured correctly. So short of calling them liars, I
> am
> > > pretty much at a 
> > > standstill and have to go with the ks.cfg on CDROM. 
> > 
> > you may want to add "nicdelay=40 linksleep=30" to you kernel command
> > line.
> > 
> > I didn't see that in any of your posts so I thought I'd mention it.
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=189795
> > 
> > Note: you can add these to your ifcfg-eth0 conf file as well
> > # No portfast, wait 30s
> > LINKDELAY=30
> > # DISABLE stupid ZeroConf address
> > NOZEROCONF=1
> > 
> > 
> > I've been on this list for a long time and been quite mostly but
> this is
> > a long thread and I thought I would hop in share my thoughts with
> the
> > rest of the Internet as well :)
> > 
> > I'm not calling your networking team a liar, but in the same effect,
> you
> > appear to be experiencing an issue where linkdelay and nicdelay my
> come
> > in handy for you (works for both static and dhcp)
> > 
> > -- 
> > - Kevin Landreth - RHCE
> > - Sr. Systems Architect
> 
> 
> While this may solve the problem (and I will try it if I have time), I
> think 
> the thread shows that there is an issue. The fact that DHCP works fine
> during 
> the PXE boot and download of the kernel and fails in Anaconda should
> be 
> reason enough to a fix to be made. Make the DHCP operate consistently
> during the 
> whole process. 
> 
> Thanks for your help 
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