kickstart not finding configuration file over simple network connection
- From: extraspecialbitter <pauldavidmena@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 10:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
I'm having some difficulty initiating a RedHat kickstart install over
a simple network connection consisting of a
Linux laptop serving as the DHCP/TFTP server, a Proliant DL585 - the
PXE client - and a Netgear switch. The PXE
client gets an IP address from the DHCP server, loads vmlinuz and
initrd.img and then begins executing
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default. It seems to get stuck trying to
invoke kickstart, however. After loading all of
the modules - including network drivers tg3 and e1000 - I get dropped
into anaconda and prompted for network
information. The console output at this point follows:
[code]
* load module set done
* getting kickstart file
* sending dhcp request through device eth2
* waiting for link...
* 0 seconds.
* running dhcp for eth2
* pump told us: No DHCP reply received
[/code]
This seems bizarre, since DHCP did get me to the /tftpboot directory
on the DHCP server, but can't seem to find the Kickstart configuration
file, which is served up via NFS.
My dhcpd.conf looks like this:
[code]allow booting;
allow bootp;
ddns-update-style none;
deny unknown-clients;
authoritative;
subnet 192.168.37.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
group {
filename "pxelinux.0";
server-identifier 192.168.37.2;
next-server 192.168.37.2;
host clone {
hardware ethernet 00:10:18:10:67:CA;
fixed-address 192.168.37.3;
}
}
}
[/code]
and /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
[code]say PXE kickstart configuration file
default ks
prompt 1
timeout 300
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=9216
label ks
kernel vmlinuz
append ksdevice=eth2 ks=nfs:192.168.37.3:/tftpboot/ha2_net.ks.cfg
initrd=initrd.img network=1
[/code]
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