Dear Alfred, thanks for your suggestions, but it is probably not such an easy issue. On Fri, 13 May 2005, Alfred Isele wrote:
are you sure your dhcp-server is answering?
Yes, it is. PXE itself is working. The card downloads the kernel and initrd and starts the setup process. On Xeon-based hardware there are no problems autoinstalling either 32 or 64bit Linux.
If it does, probably the driver for your network card is missing in the intitrd. In this case you must put the driver module into your initrd.
No, the module is loaded, and the DHCP server receives DHCPDISCOVERS from this machine. But for some reason, the card does not respond to DHCPOFFERS. And its probably not a network problem, too because 1) DHCP works for PXE setup and 2) if I boot from CD/DVD, installation with install=http://... works properly. Any other hints? Volkmar
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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