Strangeness here. I have the EDA all setup and working on servers in two of my computer rooms. Now I'm trying the first server in my 3rd computer room and although it's PXEbooting fine and showing the correct menu with my list of servers (so the nic in my server is working fine for PXEboot and working fine to get a DHCP address and even loads the boot menu from EDA).
My network admin confirmed that the port on the switch is configured correctly (the same as the other two that I just built with EDA beautifully!)
But then after "determining hostname" or something similar, it pops out the the manual config screen as it does when it doesn't like the kickstart configuration file.
"Choose a language". If I fill these all in and choose the exact same settings to get the install (NFS server ip address and NFS server directory path) it fails
I double checked the kickstart config file and it really hasn't changed, but when I look at the other virtual consoles on my new esx host I'm seeing:
Alt-F3:
doing kickstart... setting it up
waiting for link...
15 seconds.
reverse name lookup failed
ks location:
http://172.x.x.x/ks/ks.php?hostname=zyxw
transfering
http://172.x.x.x/./ks/ks.php?hostname=zyxw to a fd
failed to retrieve
http://172.x.x.x//ks/ks.php?hostname=zyxw
trying to mount device hda
then
ALT= F4
loader: failed to set default route: Network is unreachable
My EDA is on the same subnet as the DHCP address that it picks up, as well as the ultimate static address that it'll be given, so I agree with my network administrator when he says the failed to set default route error doesn't matter and is a red herring.
I'm about to try it all over again, but with another nic in this server. In the mean time... any ideas anyone?
cheers,
Kevin
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Ah, when I did the install from CD I noticed that the list of nics are ordered oddly:
8:0:0 –e1000 82571EB Gigait Ethernet Controller
8:0:1 –e1000 82571EB Gigait Ethernet Controller
4:0:0 – bnx2 BroadcomNetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T
42:0:0 – bnx2 Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5708 1000Base-T
Maybe this is the wierd ESX reordering problem that I've read about. It would explain why PXEboot is getting network fine to load the EDA menu, but then the ESX installer is looking for eth0 and vmware has maybe ordered the nics so nic0 is one of my PCI nics which isn't configured for the service console. I'll try again using eth3 then eth4. Hopefully one of these will work.
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