Description of problem: I booted the anaconda installer over the network on a couple of my ia64 systems. Once /sbin/loader starts I immediatly get an error saying it cannot download the kickstart file. I do not see it attempting to load any device drivers. If I try booting with no boot arguments (i.e. try manual install instead of kickstart) after I select "NFS directory" for the install source it asks me to select a driver (similar to what would be seen if I had booted with nostorage). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rawhide-20070501 anaconda-11.2.0.57-1 How reproducible: 100% on 2 different machines Steps to Reproduce: 1. network install of rawhide 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
one more interesting bit of info... I went to the driver selection screen and selected the e1000 driver for my system. It does not load the driver and comes back with this error: Unable to find any devices of the type needed for this installation type. I tried this on another one of my systems that has e100 and tg3 drivers. Selecting those drivers has the same result.
Doug, does this happen only on ia64? P.
(In reply to comment #2) > Doug, does this happen only on ia64? > > P. It appears to be either ia64 specific or at least specific to the rx4640/rx2600 low end HP systems. I tried my dl585 with the i386 install (appears that x86_64 did not get completely built) and that worked OK.
Are you sure you're using a properly matched kernel/initrd pair? Since if not, the module versions won't match and modules won't load properly
It appears all of the rawhide trees are gone from bigpapi so I cannot try again to see if I was somehow using a mismatched kernel/initrd. I will leave this as needinfo and retest when another tree is built.
setting back to needinfo so I don't forget this one.
requested by Jams Antill
no longer seeing this in F8-test 1.