Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 120591
(NET E100)during installation, getNetConfig ignores DHCP Offer msg
Last modified: 2015-01-04 17:05:16 EST
Component Text: boot.iso/{getNetConfig or pump or e100} Description of problem: getNetConfig fails to respond to "DHCP Offer" msg when using boot.iso CD with Installation Method FTP/HTTP. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): CD boot image from ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/test/1.91/i386/os/images/boot.iso How reproducible: Always fail on Toshiba Portege 7000CT notebook w/ 64MB RAM. Never fail on IBM T23 w/ 256MB RAM. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot from CD with said boot.iso, with no kernel argument. 2. Choose "FTP" as Installation Method. Window 3 says * devices[0] is Intel Corp.|82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] - eth0 using e100 (loaded) ... * going to do getNetConfig 3. At Configure TCP/IP, choose DHCP. Window 3 says * waiting for link... * 0 seconds. * pump told us: No DHCP reply received Actual results: The DHCP Offer msg seemed to be discarded, either by pump or lower layer of network stack. Expected results: Should use the info from DHCP Offer msg. Additional info: If I choose to use static IP, it seems that incoming network packets are discarded too, so it could be lower layer of network stack that discards the packets. The same installation method (FTP) worked with Fedora Core 1 boot.iso on the same set of hardware. From ethereal, 6 tries of DHCP Discover was sent at t = 0, 4, 11, 24, 30, 30 sec. The DHCP server responds with DHCP Offer with 0.01 sec each time.
Reassigning to anaconda, net-tools don't have a lot to do with the installation per se. Read ya, Phil
Driver bug
What is in the kernel log (should be console-4 - alt-shift-f4), does it report timeouts. Does it work if you specify acpi=off in the boot messages ?
The "acpi=off" kernel argument works well. If no one objects, I will close this bug report on 10/27/04 since workaround is available. Detail of further attemps: CD boot image from ftp://ftp.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/fedora/linux/core/2/i386/iso/FC2-i386-disc1.iso Attempt #1 (bad case): boot with NO "acpi=off" 1. Boot from CD with said FC2-i386-disc1.iso., with linux askmethod text 2. Choose "FTP" as Installation Method. Window 3 says * modules to insert mii e100 * loaded e100 from /modules/modules.cgz * inserted /tmp/e100.ko Window 4 says <4>ACPI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin B of device 0000:00:0b.1 - using IRQ 255 <6>e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17 <6>e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation <4>ACPI: No IRQ known for interrupt pin A of device 0000:00:06.0 <7>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6>e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdefff000, irq 11, MAC addr xx 3. At Configure TCP/IP, choose DHCP. Window 3 says * going to do getNetConfig * waiting for link... * 0 seconds. * pump told us: No DHCP reply received Window 4 says (earlier logs scrolled out of view) <6> e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: CLASSID: sending anaconda <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: PUMP: sending discover <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: opcode: 1 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: hw:1 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: hwlength: 6 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: hopcount: 0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: xid: 0xdfc6f69a <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: secs: 0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: flags: 0x0000 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: ciaddr: 0.0.0.0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: yiaddr: 0.0.0.0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: server_ip: 0.0.0.0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: boot_gw_ip: 0.0.0.0 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: hwaddr: <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: servername: <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: bootfile: <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: 0x63 0x53 0x82 0x63 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: 53 1 0x01 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: 60 9 0x61 0x6e 0x61 0x6 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: ++++++ 0x6f 0x6e 0x64 0x61 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: ++++++ 0x00 <135>Oct 20 19:59:07 loader: breq: vendor: 0xff Attempt #2 (good case): boot with "acpi=off" 1. Boot from CD with said FC2-i386-disc1.iso., with linux askmethod text acpi=off 2. Choose "FTP" as Installation Method. Window 3 says (same as Attempt #1) * modules to insert mii e100 * loaded e100 from /modules/modules.cgz * inserted /tmp/e100.ko Window 4 says (ACPI msgs replaced by PCI msgs) <6>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:0b.1 <== different <6>e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.17 <6>e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation <6>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:00:06.0 <== different <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:04.0 <== different <6>PCI: Sharing IRQ 11 with 0000:00:09.0 <== different <7>divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 <6>e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xdefff000, irq 11, MAC addr xx 3. At Configure TCP/IP, choose DHCP. eth0 works well.