Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (40 mails)

[Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 <simon.loewenthal@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Michael,

    Thanks for the info.  I have just tried SP3, and can install it from
the DVD and it recognises the NICs.

When I try a PXE boot it DHCPs the address and downloads the SP3 initrd,
and now the network cards appear, but it falls back to an "Activating
manual install..."  menu.  I thought that it could not download the
autoinst.xml from the NFS share, but I can access the same mount from
another machine so don't think that this is the problem.

The PXE file contains:
/tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d8-d3-85-5a-83-38.sles10_SP3_x86_64:

default SLES10_SP3_x86_64
# install SLES10_SP3 - generic profile
label SLES10_SP3_x86_64
  kernel sles10_sp3_x86_64/linux
    append initrd=sles10_sp3_x86_64/initrd ramdisk_size=65536
install=nfs://10.205.8.145/export//export/sles10sp3_x86_64
hostip=10.205.8.253/24
autoyast=nfs://10.205.8.145/export/profile/generica-sles10sp3_x84_64_autoinst_oracle_ebusiness.xml
netdevice=eth0 textmode=1 insmod=bnx2

This NFS mount command works on another machine and it can list the files:
# mount somemachine:/export/sles10sp3_x86_64 /mnt

On the autoyast installation server:
# ls -ld
/export/profile/generica-sles10sp3_x84_64_autoinst_oracle_ebusiness.xml
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 46647 2010-02-01 11:43
/export/profile/generica-sles10sp3_x84_64_autoinst_oracle_ebusiness.xml


Michael.Leu@xxxxxx wrote:
> Hi Simon
>
> For HP BL460c G6 you need at least SLES10 SP3 to get it working 'out of the 
> box'.
>
> If you want to install SLES10 SP2 or below, see:
> http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2009-09/msg00003.html
> http://h18006.www1.hp.com/products/servers/management/rdp/knowledgebase/00000197.html
>
> HTH,
> Michael
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 [mailto:simon.loewenthal@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> Gesendet: Freitag, 29. Januar 2010 16:33
> An: opensuse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Betreff: [opensuse-autoinstall] NIC disappears on PXE booted suse client 
> after TFTP.
>
>    
> Dear all,
>
>     I am trying to solve a strange networking problem with PXE boot and
> SUSE.
>
> Here follows a description with the strange ARP broadcast noted at the end:
>
> 1)    PXE boot the 10.205.8.253 (new server to install)
> 2)    DHCPOFFER to 10.205.8.253 and this then sends a DHCPACK.
> 3)    10.205.8.253 then TFTP downloads the linux and initrd and executes
> it successfully.
> 4)    Afterwards 10.205.8.253 looses all the network information.
> 5)    The final messages (Xensourc) shown in Ethereal are ARP requests
> that come from 10.205.8.253. This is the autoyast server ARPing for the
> MAC of 10.205.8.253 because it has disappeared from the network.
> No.         Time                Source                   
> Destination           Protocol     Info
> 15120 22.480085   Xensourc_33:3f:cc     d8:d3:85:5a:00:b0     ARP     
> Who has 10.205.8.253?  Tell 10.205.8.145
>
> At this point the PXE booted system 10.205.8.253 then reverts to the
> screen for starting a manual set-up programme.
> "Could not find ... the Installation Source.  Activating manual setup
> program."   When I use this to display the network interfaces then it
> only displays the loopback.
>
> This problem is not specific to one server.  It happens on all servers. 
> The servers consist of existing HP c-class blades, and some newer G6
> blades.  I tried a CD installation on the former blades and this works,
> but Suse does not see the NIC on the newer G6 blades.  I do know that
> the firmware for the OA on the HP c7000 was upgraded this week, it all
> worked last week, but this is process of elimination because, as ever,
> one has to prove to others that this is or is not a cause because
> otherwise the firmware won't be rolled back.
>
> Does anyone know where I would start?  Perhaps, I could load modules
> during the PXE boot for the server NIC?  Unsure how or whether this is
> the right path to start down.
>
>
> Yours sincerely, s.
>   
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