NFS booting problem

[Joe_Wulf]

Hi Terry, thank you.

Both of my sites are small.  One is facilitation connectivity with an 8 port
BlackBox
switch (not sure of the make/model, but its got no intelligence, just a
straightforward
switch), while my other site has a Linksys router.

How would I manifest your suggestion in that environment?

My problems continue.  Seemingly at random a VM will kickstart build, but most of
the
time they still continue with the problems I've previously reports.  I'm not
going to
have the project time to invest in another alternative solution (apache with
proxy),
as previously suggested.  I am looking for how to troubleshoot the NFS problem.
Would
greatly appreciate thoughts and suggestions on what to look at, settings to put
in
place, etc...

Thank you.


R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
 Senior IA Engineer
 ProSync Technology Group, LLC
 www.prosync.com

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Hello Joe
I have just joined this list and have been following your problem.
An issue I have seen where the kickstart build stalls with DNS and NFS mount
problems was a layer 2 problem.
It was intermittent and was finally cured by setting the portfast option on the
switch port. this reduced the delay of the switch putting the NIC's MAC address
in it's MAC table.


Best regards

Terry Covill
 
Technical Support Group
Yorkshire Building Society 

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>From Joe_Wulf <Joe_Wulf at yahoo.com>
Sent Mon 15/10/2007 00:58
To kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject NFS booting problem


I've got an on again, off again problem where I can initiate a kickstart for
RHEL5 (32 or 64 bit), as well as
for RHEL AS4 (32 or 64 bit) and many times the NFS mount for the KS config cannot
be found.  Then,
after numerous reboots to troubleshoot the problem, poof, the NFS mount is found
and some systems
get built.  Nothing changed.  Even reboots of the kickstart server, the Linksys
router and the Mac Pro
(with WinXP and VMware 6 installed) don't change that many restarts have to
happen before it will
somehow, magically start building.
 
A most confusing problem and one that I need insight, advice and questions from
you all on what to
check so I can solve it.  All help is appreciated!

R,
-Joe Wulf, CISSP, USN(RET)
 Senior IA Engineer
 ProSync Technology Group, LLC
 www.prosync.com