Thanks for your response.  The fact that it works for you is encouraging. 
If I do my nfs install, ie, "linux ks=nfs....", I don't get the console-2 
bash prompt. I don't think anaconda is far enough along.  That's why I tried 
to load "linux rescue".  I should have written early that anaconda actually 
crashes in the rescue mode.  I get some sort of exception and I see on 
console-1 an "abnormal exit" message following a dump.

I tried a plain old "linux text" but I can't nfs mount because the network 
is not prepped yet.  Any more ideas?



Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ken Teh wrote:
> 
>> More on this problem:  I tried to start the system via the rescue mode 
>> to see if I could manually issue the NFS mount command.  
>> Unfortunately, the rescue mode does not work.
>>
>> So far the only thing that works is manually feeding the CDs.  Which 
>> is what I'm trying to get away from.  :\
> 
> Just to confirm we do sl51 installs with nfs kickstart files all the 
> time and it works fine for us - in our case we are PXE booting with 
> pxelinux but that shouldn't make much difference anyway.
> 
> If you boot from the CDs and get to the console-2 bash prompt can you 
> NFS mount the directory from that server by hand?
> 
> Can you run tcpdump on the nfs server and see if that sheds any light on 
> what the problem might be?
> 
>  -- Jon