Description of problem: 1. boot the target server with rhel4u3 disc 1 2. at boot: prompt, input the string "linux ks=nfs:192.168.0.200:/install/ks.cfg ksdevice=eth0 ip=192.168.0.113 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.0.1 dns=202.96.209.5 3.the target server 's main console show "Determining host name and domain ..." and nearly 20 seconds, it reported "That directory could not be mounted from the server" 4. switch to ALT+F4 and it reported "loader:failed to set default route : Network is unreachable" 5. the installation is Ok if i start the installation without kickstart by pass the boot option " boot: linux askmethod" and choose NFS image installation. 6. i've double checked my nfs server, network connection, hardware healthy status, target server's network connection status and sure these basic setting are all OK. i can access the same nfs server from another production server without any problem. Very strange thing is : i've also found one brief from redhat's knowledge base that describes the same issue but said it will be fixed in rhel4u1 and later version. So i can't understand why this issue has appeared in U3 again ? The Redhat knowledge base brief description the same problem is here http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_42_5549.shtm. ID:5549.
Please attach /tmp/anaconda.log so we can have a better idea of what is happening. You may also want to try the latest update release of RHEL4 or even RHEL5 to see if the problem still exists there.
Since we never received the requested log files, there's no way we're ever going to be able to diagnose this.