Thanks for the helpful pointers.
I have tried using ksdevice=bootif and it did not help. When it comes to
configuring network it brings me to following screen,
+--------------------------+ Networking Device +---------------------------+
| |
| You have multiple network devices on this system. Which would |
| you like to install through? |
| |
| eth0 - nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet ^ |
| eth1 - nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet # |
| eth2 - nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet : |
| eth3 - nVidia Corporation MCP55 Ethernet : |
| eth4 - Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) : |
| eth5 - Intel Corporation 82571EB Gigabit Ethernet Controller (Copper) v |
| |
| +----+ +----------+ +------+ |
| | OK | | Identify | | Back | |
| +----+ +----------+ +------+ |
| |
| |
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------+
I haven't tried ksdevice=link and will try it out and see if it helps.
Regarding adding 'bfsort' to the kernel command line I believe you are
referring to add (basically append) it to the file which is created in
/tftpboot/linux-install/pxelinux.cfg/<hex file> correct?
For example
default RHEL-4.4
label RHEL-4.4
kernel RHEL-4.4/vmlinuz
append initrd=RHEL-4.4/initrd.img console=ttyS0,9600n8 ramdisk_size=8192
ks=nfs:192.168.91.14:/appl/kickstart/ks/bth3lab18-rhel-4.4-lvm-omg-kickstart.cfg
ksdevice=eth0 bfsort
I am installing RHEL-5.3 which has v2.6 kernel but I will still try it out.
Thank you,
AN
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> Hi Folks,
>
> I am doing network install of RHEL-5.3 OS on Sun hardware, model info is
> x4240 AMD 6 core system. Network install I have is a install server, tftp and
> dhcp server. It successfully does pxeboot over network and goes through
> probing the hardware on the system and when it comes to configuring network,
> it picks up eth0 for configuring the network and doesn't complete, instead
> shows manual configuration window. I go ahead and perform manual
> configuration but it errors out at next step where I has to access
> kickstart.cfg file form the NFS server (install server). I have tried
> mentioning different network instance in the configuration but all the time
> it shows only configuring eth0 instance not sure why it does like that. Have
> anybody come across this issue, if so please provide pointers to resolve it.
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> Thanks in advance for your time regarding this.
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> Thank you,
> AN
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> 2010/1/27 Arvind Navale <[email protected]>:
> > Hi Folks,
> >
> > I am doing network install of RHEL-5.3 OS on Sun hardware, model info is
> > x4240 AMD 6 core system. Network install I have is a install server, tftp
> > and dhcp server.? It successfully does pxeboot over network and goes through
> > probing the hardware on the system and when it comes to configuring network,
> > it picks up eth0 for configuring the network and doesn't complete, instead
> > shows manual configuration window.
>
> The x4240 has multiple network interfaces. The behaviour you describe
> roughly matches my observations when what I have plugged into PXE is
> not what anaconda considers eth0. Have you tried passing
> ksdevice=bootif as a boot parameter as per this:
>
> http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2005-August/msg00019.html
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> Other options are ksdevice=link which will use the first device that
> anaconda detects has a link.
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> Sam
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> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:54:28 +0800
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> You could try adding 'bfsort' to the kernel command line. This helps
> keeps the Ethernet device list the same for the kernel as for the
> BIOS. This is the v2.4 and below behavior.
>
> CC
>
> On 1/28/10, Sam Sharpe <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 2010/1/27 Arvind Navale <[email protected]>:
> > > Hi Folks,
> > >
> > > I am doing network install of RHEL-5.3 OS on Sun hardware, model info is
> > > x4240 AMD 6 core system. Network install I have is a install server, tftp
> > > and dhcp server. It successfully does pxeboot over network and goes
> > > through
> > > probing the hardware on the system and when it comes to configuring
> > > network,
> > > it picks up eth0 for configuring the network and doesn't complete, instead
> > > shows manual configuration window.
> >
> > The x4240 has multiple network interfaces. The behaviour you describe
> > roughly matches my observations when what I have plugged into PXE is
> > not what anaconda considers eth0. Have you tried passing
> > ksdevice=bootif as a boot parameter as per this:
> >
> > http://www.redhat.com/archives/anaconda-devel-list/2005-August/msg00019.html
> >
> > Other options are ksdevice=link which will use the first device that
> > anaconda detects has a link.
> >
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> > When I list the partitions in the
> > refit shell, the Linux partitions are listed as 'basic data', is it possible
> > this is the problem?
> >
> > Any insights would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Do the last two entries here help at all?
>
> http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/
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