On Wed, Aug 7, 2013 at 2:19 AM, Thomas Fehr
On Tue, Aug 06, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Greetings, I'm trying to run an autoyast based installation of SLES11-SP3 inside of a KVM based virtual machine (host OS is Fedora19-x86_64, if that matters), and it is consistently hanging at: Sending dhcp request to eth0
It sounds quite similar to this bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799496
however, I'm not installing over NFS at all. I'm invoking the installation from local media, and pulling down all components via http. This is the isolinux 'append' entry that I'm using:
textmode=1 initrd=sles113_64bit.img autoyast=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64/autoyastcuda.xml install=http://172.20.232.152/distros/suse/os/SLES11-SP3/x86_64
The problem you are experiencing happens before yast gets started. It happens during setup of installation environment by linuxrc.
If you use a http-URL for installation, linuxrc needs to set up the network to be able to access installation. Therefore it sends a dhcp request for eth0. Why this hangs, I cannot answer. Maybe your virtual machine is not set up for network connection to your DHCP server.
I'm quite certain that the problem isn't an inability to connect to the DHCP server. I'm using the same virtual machine configuration for many different types of Linux distributions (and even Windows), and the only one that fails at all is SLES11-SP3. Even if I had some how misconfigured the VM to not allow DHCP traffic, I'd expect a sane failure message, not a complete & indefinite hang. Shouldn't the attempt to obtain a DHCP lease timeout at some point if that was the actual problem? That's certainly how I've seen all other OS's fail when there was no response from a DHCP server. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner@opensuse.org