RHEL 3 kickstart network retrieval issue

[Shabazian, Chip]

You may be running into the timeout issue when connected to Cisco (and
probably other) switches.
 
use the ethtool option to set speed/duplex/auto-neg and use a delay if
needed.  You can find all these options in my presentation last year at
Linuxworld
 
http://www.shabazian.com/lw2007.pdf
 


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From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Brent Clements
Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 4:27 PM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: RHEL 3 kickstart network retrieval issue


I am having the wierdest issue with RHEL 3 network installs. 
 
When I boot with a RHEL 3 boot media, I use the following boot
commandline:
 
linux ks=http://myhost/RHEL3.ks ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP>
netmask=<MYNETMASK> gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS>
 
Anaconda boots up but it fails at installing. I switch over to a
terminal and it shows that anaconda has failed to retrieve the kickstart
file from the network and also I see a no route to host error. Does not
look like the network device is being set up correctly based upon the
boot commandline parameters.
 
 
To Troubleshoot to make sure it wasn't the kickstart file that was the
problem, I stuck this same kickstart file as an embedded kickstart on
the cd and it worked fine. So that doesn't get me anywhere and validates
that my actual kickstart file doesn't have errors and can install an OS 
 
So, I try doing the same thing but with RHEL 4 media and a RHEL4 based
kickstart using the boot commandline
 
linux ks=http://myhost/RHEL4.ks ksdevice=eth0 ip=<MYIP>
netmask=<MYNETMASK> gateway=<MYGATEWAY> dns=<MYDNS>
 
Everything works fine using RHEL 4 and the command line stated right
above.
 
 
Are their known issues with setting network parameters at the command
line with RHEL 3? 
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