Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (109 mails)

[Anas Nashif <nashif@xxxxxxx>]

Steve,
I asked you for more information but I got no answer to the questions below.
Could you provide some more information about where it hangs?

Anas


Anas Nashif wrote:
> This is indeed strange. Where does the installation exactly stop. In 
> YaST? In linuxrc? If in YaST, can you send me the log files from 
> /var/log/YaST2/
>
> There should be no difference when installaing over network, same files 
> are used so I do not see why this is failing.
>
> Anas
>
> Steve Glines wrote:
>
> > suse.root is the initrd file talen from boot/loader on CD1.
> >
> > SG
> >
> > Anas Nashif wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Steve Glines wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > > I’m building a PXE install lab for SUSE and other flavors of Linux.
> > > >
> > > > The DHCP and tftp servers are working. Note: I can fully install Red 
> > > > Hat
> > > > from this lab but SUSE (SLES9 rc5) shows the following symptoms:
> > > >
> > > > 1.    a cdrom install on the target system runs to completion in 
> > > > graphics
> > > > mode. System is an HP PC with SCSI disk.
> > > > 2.    PXE install runs in non X-window mode (text) and fails to load 
> > > > scsi
> > > > controllers – cannot find any disks. Fails even when modules are
> > > > manually added.
> > > >
> > > > Here is the content of /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
> > > >
> > > > default suse
> > > > prompt 1
> > > > display boot.msg
> > > > timeout 200
> > > >
> > > > label redhat
> > > >  kernel redhat.kernel
> > > >  append initrd=redhat.root ramdisk_size=65536
> > > >
> > > > label suse
> > > >  kernel suse.kernel
> > > >  append initrd=suse.root ramdisk_size=65536\
> > > > install=http://10.0.3.11/suse/CD1/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What is suse.root exactly?
> > >
> > > Btw, To get graphical installer, you need to add vga=791 or something
> > > similar.
> > >
> > > Anas