Charles Smith had a problem with PXE/TFTP booting/autoinstalling. For Red Hat 32-bit and 64-bit both work, and aside from the last step of "autoinstalling", the procedure for SUSE should be the same. For Intel x86 and AMD x86_64, /tftpboot/pxelinux.0 works fine. In pxelinux.cfg the files for 32-bit machines has the lines default local #default linux_install prompt 1 timeout 100 display msgs/boot.msg F1 msgs/boot.msg F7 msgs/snake.msg label linux_install kernel vmlinuz append ksdevice=eth0 initrd=initrd.img network ks=http://156.148.64.101/kickst art/scivu6/ks.cfg lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 label local localboot 0 where vmlinuz and initrd.img have been taken from the appropriate 32-bit distribution whereas for 64-bit the names vmlinuz and initrd.img are slightly different to refer to different files, the ones taken from the 64-bit distribution. It works fine for both architectures. As Charles Smith wrote, perhaps the installation procedure for 64-bit is different from 32-bit for SUSE. From the description of the problem it would seem that the last step starting YAST is the problem, that the machine reboots rather than install. Alan
As Charles Smith wrote, perhaps the installation procedure for 64-bit is different from 32-bit for SUSE. From the description of the problem it would seem that the last step starting YAST is the problem, that the machine reboots rather than install. Alan
As I said at the very end of my last message (admittedly quite subtly), the problem with it rebooting upon loading the kernel turned out to be some BIOS settings on the ASUS SK8N involving ECC Memory settings. After turning off the ECC scrubbing, etc, it seems to work exactly the same as you describe in RH using an alternate 64-bit version of linux and initrd. I have another post-install problem now, but I haven't gotten to the point yet where I've run out of options and need help. Thanks for you response! -Charles Smith
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Alan Scheinine
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