Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (83 mails)

[Hartmut.Dunker@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Hi Mouncef,

we had the same Problem with SLES8 and HP Proliants. Old systems worked
with an old boot kernel. After purchasing a new Proliant some weeks ago the
system wasn't able to get a DHCP IP after PXE boot. After changing the boot
kernel to the SLES8 SP3 kernel in the tftp directory pxe boot and
autoinstallation works fine. Just try to use the boot kernel from the 9.0
CD for installation.

Regards
Hartmut Dunker



                                                                                                                                       
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Hi everyone,

I have used Autoyast successfully to install SuSE 8.2 Pro on multiple IBM
Blade servers. Each one of these servers comes with two Broadcom gigabit
cards, I used the bcm5700 module which worked fine during and after the
installation. We purchased more of these Blades, which come with the next
generation Broadcom cards, they work fine after a manual installation is
complete.
The problem is during the automated installation. After the installation
kernel loads, the card tries to get a DHCP IP from the NFS server (before
YAST starts), that's when it hangs. I checked the DHCP server logs and it
doesn't seem like the request is even reaching the server.
I tried loading 9.0 on one of the Blade servers, and it worked using
Autoyast. But I have to stick with SuSE 8.2 for now. Is there an updated
version of the SuSE 8.2 Pro loader files (initrd, linux, memtest...)?

Thanks for your time,
Mouncef


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