Kickstart install over gige interface on HP zx6000
Jason Holland <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2003 15:52:51 -0500 (CDT)
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Hello, I'm hoping someone can help with this peculiar problem. I am trying to setup an automated kickstart install on an HP zx6000. The machine has dual interfaces, 1 10/100 and also a gige interface. Our cluster currently takes advantage of the gige interface, so consequently I'd like to do my automated installs over that interface. However, the RedHat installer will not assign a dhcp address during the install, it just hangs. It gets weird. This works perfectly fine if I use a static address, so the interface is good and functions. DHCP assignment will work if I use the 10/100 interface, so DHCP is setup correctly. When I do a lanboot from the EFI shell and select the gige interface, I get an IP address, and the tftpboot sequence kicks off ok. But somehow if fails to get an ip during the install. Has anyway had this problem before? Seems very odd to me. We are using RedHat Advanced Workstation 2.1 Update 2. The installer recognizes the nic card and even loads the correct module, but it will not assign an ip address. Yes, I have the right interface set in my ks.cfg file. That file, btw, is passed inside initrd.img. And I have tried setting ksdevice=eth1 in my elilo.conf file, but that doesn't seem to work either. It only fails with DHCP and gig card, everything else I try works fine. Any pointers would be appreciated. Thanks Jason P Holland Texas Learning and Computation Center http://www.tlc2.uh.edu University of Houston Philip G Hoffman Hall rm 207A tel: 713-743-4850 cell: 281-451-5991