From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1 Description of problem: When attempting to use the kickstart/netboot images for RHEL3U4, to do a PXE install, DHCP fails. The first DHCP request works fine, and then the linux install loads, but the linux dhcp process fails without any error message. This is true both with Update 3, and Update 4. The images for Update 1 and Update 2 work fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.4.21-27.ELBOOT How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Pxeboot the netboot image 2. Watch the dhcp fail. Actual Results: Once the netboot image is loaded, the box ceases to send out any network traffic. It sits at the network configuration screen. Expected Results: The server should send a DHCP message, get it's IP address, and get it's next-server so it knows what kickstart file to grab. Additional info: I believe this to be a bug with the tg3 driver. This makes pxebooting impossible.
Correction, this doesn't make "pxebooting" impossible, because the pxeboot process works well. It's after the pxe boot, once the redhat image is loaded, where things fail..
Can you see any non-PXE DHCP traffic on the wire? Perhaps you can attach the output of something like tcpdump or ethereal running at the DHCP server (hopefully on an isolated network)? Thanks!
Is STP enabled on the switch port? If so, can you disable it and try again? When the tg3 driver loads, it will re-init the hardware which probably causes the link to go down. If STP is enabled, it could take 30+ seconds for the link to become usable again. That may be long enough to cause DHCP to fail.
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