RHEL 3 kickstart network retrieval issue

[Brent Clements]

I thought that as well before I submitted to the mailing list. Tried various
eth settings including the standard troubleshooting ones that are out there
but it did not work.

I'm goin to do some traffic sniffing to see what's going on.




On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:07 PM, Shabazian, Chip <
Chip.Shabazian at bankofamerica.com> wrote:

>  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
>
>
>  ------------------------------
> *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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