Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (71 mails)

[Wayman Smith <wayman.smith@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Frank Steiner wrote:
> 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
Sorry,

It was just a matter of using the correct default file in pxelinux.cfg.

Thanks,

Wayman
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