Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jun 2008, Ken Teh wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Yup the bash on console-2 isn't started until stage2 has been loaded.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Is that booting from CD?  Are there other related messages on the VCs? 
> I've never seen it crash like that, is the hardware known to be working?
> 
>> I tried a plain old "linux text" but I can't nfs mount because the 
>> network is not prepped yet.  Any more ideas?
> 
> Well you could go far enough through the manual install (booted from CD) 
> to set up networking or manually bring up networking in the console-2 
> bash... (you don't have much to work with in that environment but I 
> think it should include at least one of ifconfig or ip).
> 
> Did running tcpdump (or wireshark or whatever) on the server show anything?
> 
>  -- Jon

No, I haven't tried tcpdump yet.  syslog shows that the server heard the nfs 
mount request.  I've also verified that I can mount the volume from another 
SL5.0 machine.