Bad F17 install experiences: CentOS 6.3 vs. F17

[Jos Vos]

On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 09:11:42AM -0700, John Reiser wrote:

> > The system has 3 NIC's, 2x Broadcom BCM5704 and 1x Netgear GA630.
> > I use a BCM5704 for network install.  This works fine on CentOS with
> > ksdevice=link.  With F17 I see multiple dhcp being started, resulting
> > in multiple timeouts (I even see a second dhcp being started for em2
> > while just before the console says that em1 got a link), and only
> > after quite some time (a *long* time) the kickstart file is found
> 
> Please give some reasonable numerical estimate [say, +/- 20%]
> of the duration: 30 seconds, 300 seconds (5 minutes), or what?

I would have guessed 3 minutes and I now timed it exactly: 3 minutes
and 10 seconds, from where the log stops, all the dhcp and NIC stuff
is seen, till everything continues.

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