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