Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (71 mails)

[Frank Steiner <fsteiner-mail1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wayman Smith wrote

> This set has worked previously, the only variables that have changed are 
> the client and server hardware. All hardware is 64bit. I have been 
> searching around and it looks like this is related to a missing initrd, 
> but my initrd file is present where it should be in /tftp.

Do you specifiy it with "initrd=..." in pxelinux.cfg?

The kernel/initrd of the installed might not recognize your hard disk
controller. What is it? A quite new SCSI/SAS or sth.? I had the same
issue when I was using a new 3ware SAS controller that was not yet in
the SLED10 SP1 kernel. On the client, look with Alt-F2/F3/F4 for the
kernel messages and see if it detects your controller at all. 

You can of course compile a driver for your controller against the
original SLED10 kernel (or SLED10 SP1 kernel, whatever installer you use)
and add the module to the initrd that you use for the installation.
That's how I included the 3ware SAS controller here.

cu,
Frank


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