Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (109 mails)

["Marcin Kurc" <mkurc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

it is not a problem with PXE, your installation tree is not configured correctly 
You should either use SLES9 system to build the tree or configure it according to the docu/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html which can be found on cd #1 
 
Also, you need to point you install to top dir not CD1 i.e. 'install=http://10.0.3.11/suse' 
 
 

thanks,

Marcin Kurc
Linux Impact Team
Novell, Inc

(973) 493-6235

>>>Steve Glines <sglines@xxxxxxxxx> 09/01/04 2:30 pm >>>
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/

The file suse.kernel was copied from /boot/loader/linux in CD1 while
suse.root was taken from /boot/loader/initrd in the same CD.

I copied the contents of each CD into their own directories * I have CD1
* CD6 in the directory specified by http://10.0.3.11/suse/CD[1-6].

My test target system is a Celeron with 256MB Ram and an IDE disk; this
setup fully installs SLES9. The only material change from this to the
production lab is that the target system in the production lab has a
SCSI disk and 1GB of ram.

Help! Please

Cheers
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