From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.7 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030131 Description of problem: I've configured a machine to do PXE based network installations. I've done many network installations on this configuration, so I'm sure I've got a fairly normal network configuration on my existing server (DHCP, tftp, etc). This machine is completely headless. A serial port is used for console access. I have no VGA screen attached, nor a mouse. A keyboard is attached, but is not used at all during this process. I have the following two boot lines in the pxelinux config file: label install-rhel kernel /redhat/rhel/ia32/vmlinuz append ip=dhcp initrd=/redhat/rhel/ia32/initrd.img console=ttyS0,115200 vnc vncpassword=<password> label install-severn kernel /redhat/severn/vmlinuz append ip=dhcp initrd=/redhat/severn/initrd.img console=ttyS0,115200 vnc vncpassword=<password> When I install RHEL (Taroon beta), my networking setup works as I expect. When I install Severn, the installer is repeatedly offered an IP address, but apparently ignores the offer and eventually times out and re-prompts me for my networking configuration. If I manually enter the right values, and then I enter my NFS server information, the Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot my system via PXE. The kernel and initrd are from severn disc 1, images/pxeboot. 2. use the pxelinux config line for install-severn (see above). 3. I'm prompted for language (English), install type (NFS), and then the installer does a round of DHCP queries (from my DHCP server log, I see the DHCPREQUESTs and the DHCPOFFERs, which all look correct). 4. I'm then prompted to enter my networking information, with an option to use DHCP. If I use DHCP, the same round of activity occurs. This occurs as many times as I'm willing to attempt the cycle (probably 6 or 7 cycles). 5. If I enter the information manually, I'm then prompted for my NFS server & pathname and then (after a pause), I get the following error message "That directory could not be mounted from the server.". No NFS errors messages showed up in the logs on my server machine. Actual Results: I cannot do a complete network installation. Expected Results: I should be able to do an installation entirely via the network. I am able to do so using Taroon or Red Hat Linux 9, on this exact hardware configuration. Additional info: This machine has an e100 card as the sole network device.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 101630 ***
Changed to 'CLOSED' state since 'RESOLVED' has been deprecated.