Error downloading kickstart file

Renil Thomas renilthomas82 at gmail.com
Sat Jun 19 02:34:26 UTC 2010


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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