Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 113834
Kickstart exits when 5 ethernet cards are defined in KS file
Last modified: 2007-04-18 13:01:34 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; SunOS sun4u; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20030711 Description of problem: Kickstarting host with 5 ethernetcards. Only a maximmum of 4 cards seems to be supported. The kickstart entry : network --device eth0 --bootproto static --ip 138.203.8.10 \ --netmask 255.255.252.0 --gateway 138.203.8.100 \ --nameserver 138.203.8.79,138.203.9.115 --hostname bthx16 network --device eth1 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.10.01 \ --netmask 255.255.255.0 network --device eth2 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.20.01 \ --netmask 255.255.255.0 network --device eth3 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.30.01 \ --netmask 255.255.255.0 network --device eth4 --bootproto static --ip 192.168.40.01 \ --netmask 255.255.255.0 This results in the following error during KS install : Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/anaconda", line 705, in ? instClass.setInstallData(id) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 1154, in setInstallData self.readKickstart(id, self.file) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 668, in readKickstart handlers[args[0]](id, args[1:]) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/kickstart.py", line 446, in doNetwork self.setNetwork(id, bootproto, ip, netmask, device=device) File "/usr/lib/anaconda/installclass.py", line 289, in setNetwork dev=devices[device] KeyError: eth4 Install exited abnormally < systems halts > Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-9.0 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Installing using KSfile with 5 network entries 2. 3. Actual Results: Installation aborts, system halts Expected Results: installation should continue, and all ethernet devices are properly configured. Additional info:
Do you actually have five supported ethernet cards in the machine?
The problem is indded the last bcard is not recognized/configured duting the installation. After installation, it is no problem to configure it properly. Only eth0->eth3 are visible, which causes the installation abort on eth4. The configuration ; 3 pci 3com 3c59x 2 ISA 3com 3c5x9 All are working when configured manually after installation. In the meantime I tried the following : device eth 3c509 --options="xcvr=4,4 irq=10,5" device eth 3c509 --options="xcvr=4 irq=5" and via %pre #!/bin/sh modprobe 3c509 xcvr=4 irq=10 Still hav no success, but will add more comments doing some more tests tomorrow. Kernel options are no option. (yet)
ISA network cards are not supported in the installer.
Solution - Dasbale PnP feature on all ISA based NIC One of the nics was configured PnP. Solution : Get the 3c5x9xxx.exe (ftp.scom/com/pub/nic/3c5x9/) boot into dos and execute 3c5x9cfg.exe disable pnp, and check other config reboot and start installation.