Bug 47197
| Summary: | Installer doesn't understand the DHCP response from DHCPd when booted with PXE | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Thomas Langes <tlan> |
| Component: | pump | Assignee: | Elliot Lee <sopwith> |
| Status: | CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE | QA Contact: | Brock Organ <borgan> |
| Severity: | high | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | high | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | CC: | ewt, msw |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2004-06-28 16:56:06 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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Comments from the installer team or ewt, both of whom are more likely to know what is going on? |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0) Description of problem: We're trying to deploy a RedHat 7.1 installation to 50 servers, and 500 workstations (different kickstart files, of course). All this should be done with PXE-boot, the only problem is that RedHat 7.1 doesn't seem to do DHCP right. No matter what machine I try, it boots up fine, finding pxelinux.0 (which is the pxe-loader we're using), also finds configuration, kernel and initrd.img. Starts the kernel, loads the initrd.img, and starts the installation-process... And that's it, because at the very start of the installation process, RedHat tries to get network info with DHCP (we've placed the kickstart files on an NFS-exported disk, as putting the kickstart file inside initrd.img isn't an option), but it complaints of not getting any replies although I know it does. this is the log: [/var/log/messages - Start] Jul 3 04:43:58 edgar dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:43:58 edgar dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 129.241.56.51 to 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:43:59 edgar dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 129.241.56.51 (129.241.56.75) from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:43:59 edgar dhcpd: DHCPACK on 129.241.56.51 to 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:44:01 edgar dhcpd: DHCPRELEASE of 129.241.56.51 from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 (not found) Jul 3 04:44:01 edgar dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 129.241.56.51 (129.241.56.22) from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:44:01 edgar dhcpd: DHCPACK on 129.241.56.51 to 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:45:04 edgardhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:45:04 edgar dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 129.241.56.51 to 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:45:04 edgar dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 Jul 3 04:45:04 edgar dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 129.241.56.51 to 00:b0:d0:f0:89:a9 via eth0 [/var/log/messages - End] I've been searching various lists, and it seem to be problem several people have stumbled upon, but no one seem to have found a solution. As you see from the log above, the RedHat loader never sends a DHCPREQUEST for an IP, it does, however send two DHCPDISCOVER's... How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. configure pxelinux.0 so that it passes ks=nfs:server:/some/where 2. copy the contents of the bootnet.img over to the TFTPd directory where pxelinux.0 is 3. boot your machine with pxe from your NIC, loading pxelinux.0 4. What happens now is that pxelinux loads vmlinuz, with initrd.img (which contains the redhat installation program), telling it that kickstart is on NFS causes loader to ask for IP info through DHCP. As you can see from my log, it never do anything with the replies from the server. Actual Results: Unable to do kickstart-installation Expected Results: We need kickstart, DHCP must work when doing installation. Additional info: It's all in the description; except hardware: this is a Dell PowerEdge 2550 system with integrated eepro100 NIC capable of doing PXE-booting.