Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-amd64 (148 mails)

[Volkmar Glauche <volkmar.glauche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To reply to myself:

The pxelinux kernel option "keeppxe" did the trick. Now installation runs 
fine from power on through to a ready-to-use system without any manual 
intervention.

On Tue, 10 May 2005, Volkmar Glauche wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to do a PXE install of SuSE Linux Professional on a Fujitsu 
> Siemens Scaleo T A64XP35 box. However, it does seem to have problems 
> initializing the network card after PXE. I have tried the following 
> scenarios:
> 1) Boot from DVD with install=nfs://myserver/mydir. This works fine, the 
> network card gets its IP over DHCP and starts the download. Yast 
> detects the card as Asus CK804 (apparently using the forcedeth driver?).
> 2) Boot from the PXE PROM of the network card. This downloads the kernel 
> (linux64 from the DVD) and initrd (initrd64 from DVD) and starts booting. 
> The network card sends a DHCPDISCOVER 2 or 3 times, but does not answer 
> the DHCPOFFER from the DHCP server. Thus it times out on mounting 
> the installation source and I get into linuxrc. However, I did not have 
> any luck to activate the network card manually, either. Any ideas?
> 
> 

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