Thanks for your response. The fact that it works for you is encouraging.
If I do my nfs install, ie, "linux ks=nfs....", I don't get the console-2
bash prompt. I don't think anaconda is far enough along. That's why I tried
to load "linux rescue". I should have written early that anaconda actually
crashes in the rescue mode. I get some sort of exception and I see on
console-1 an "abnormal exit" message following a dump.
I tried a plain old "linux text" but I can't nfs mount because the network
is not prepped yet. Any more ideas?
Jon Peatfield wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ken Teh wrote:
More on this problem: I tried to start the system via the rescue mode
to see if I could manually issue the NFS mount command.
Unfortunately, the rescue mode does not work.
So far the only thing that works is manually feeding the CDs. Which
is what I'm trying to get away from. :\
Just to confirm we do sl51 installs with nfs kickstart files all the
time and it works fine for us - in our case we are PXE booting with
pxelinux but that shouldn't make much difference anyway.
If you boot from the CDs and get to the console-2 bash prompt can you
NFS mount the directory from that server by hand?
Can you run tcpdump on the nfs server and see if that sheds any light on
what the problem might be?
-- Jon
