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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