Error downloading kickstart file

[Capotorto, Anibal]

Is it possible that the nic that is being used post PXE is not the same
that is being used for pxe ?

 

 

If so I would recommend to change the ksdevice from eth2 to the mac of
the pxe system, that should work, and the same nic will be used
regardless of how linux detects it

 

Also I can't remember the correct writing for the nfs: thingie, you
might want to look that one up  and make sure is fine.

 

Cheers

Bicho[DBZ]

 

From: kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com
[mailto:kickstart-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of Renil Thomas
Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2010 3:34 AM
To: kickstart-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: Error downloading kickstart file

 

Hi,

 

I forgot to mention that RHEL 5.5 is being installed here.

 

Thanks & Regards,

Renil Thomas.

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:00 AM, Renil Thomas <renilthomas82 at gmail.com>
wrote:

Hi,

 

During kickstart installation of a sun x4270 machines using dhcp/pxe the
below error is obtained while the nfs file download. There are already
some relevant bugs but I would like to how we can debug at this stage,
i.e., what are the possible debugs?

 

+ Error downloading kickstart file +-------------+

->      |                                                              |

->      | Unable to download the kickstart file.  Please modify the    |

->      | kickstart parameter below or press Cancel to proceed as an   |

->      | interactive installation.                                    |

->      |                                               

 

The configurations seems to be fine, as the same is working on other set
of machines. For instance, the pxelinux.cfg/"Hex" file consists:

 

default linux

 

label linux

        kernel red_hat/vmlinuz

        append initrd=red_hat/initrd.img ramdisk_size=65536 vga=no
ip=130.130.21.121 netmask=255.255.255.0 ksdevice=eth2
ks=nfs:130.130.21.120:/myshare/ks.cfg acpi=off console=ttyS0,19200

 

in /etc/exports the directory is exported:

 

/myshare *(rw,sync)

 

 

nfs services are fine and the exported directories can be mounted on
from other machines in the network:

 

 rpcinfo -p

   program vers proto   port

    100000    2   tcp    111  portmapper

    100000    2   udp    111  portmapper

    100011    1   udp    969  rquotad

    100011    2   udp    969  rquotad

    100011    1   tcp    972  rquotad

    100011    2   tcp    972  rquotad

    100003    2   udp   2049  nfs

    100003    3   udp   2049  nfs

    100003    4   udp   2049  nfs

    100021    1   udp  32769  nlockmgr

    100021    3   udp  32769  nlockmgr

    100021    4   udp  32769  nlockmgr

    100021    1   tcp  32803  nlockmgr

    100021    3   tcp  32803  nlockmgr

    100021    4   tcp  32803  nlockmgr

    100003    2   tcp   2049  nfs

    100003    3   tcp   2049  nfs

    100003    4   tcp   2049  nfs

    100005    1   udp    983  mountd

    100005    1   tcp    986  mountd

    100005    2   udp    983  mountd

    100005    2   tcp    986  mountd

    100005    3   udp    983  mountd

    100005    3   tcp    986  mountd

 

 

Thanks & Regards,

Renil Thomas

 

 

 

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