On Thu, 2002-02-21 at 12:11, Stephan Borg wrote: [...snipped...] > > I've also got this output from tty3: > > ... > > * going to insmod eepro100.o (path is NULL) > > * kickstarting through device eth0 > > * sending dhcp request through device eth0 > > * nodns is 0 > > * reverse name lookup failed > > * going to insmod sunrpc.o (path is NULL) > > * going to insmod lockd.o (path is NULL) > > * going to insmod nfs.o (path is NULL) > > (bombs out here) > > > > Looks like its to do with DHCP and possible > > reverse-DNS. Any help would be appreciated. BTW, > > reverse-DNS may not be an option. > >
I've never used kickstart, but I've just spent some time getting nfsroot working from a floppy boot (on a semi-supported micro channel architecture machine too, just in case I wasn't trying to do enough new things at once). Are these modules available to the kernel on the floppy, especially eepro100 and nfs (and perhaps lockd)? Are you monitoring the traffic from this box to see if it actually doing the dhcp request broadcast? Have you tried the interactive option Redhat mentions in the documentation? My guess is that it is failing to load the driver for the network card, after that, everything else will fail. Cheers, Malcolm V.
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