On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 18:40 +0100, Gunreben, Peter (Peter) wrote:
Roger,
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
Roger,
Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
The install kernel boots. At some point it wants to get a
DHCP address
for the ethernet card. This 'should' be working as it got an address when it first booted. I see this in the server's /var/log/messages. But this seems to timeout. My dhcp entry is:
host jboc1 {
filename "/suseInstall/pxelinux.0"; fixed-address 192.30.105.204; hardware ethernet 00:30:48:56:38:B2; next-server 192.30.105.201; option host-name "jboc1"; }
192.30.105.201 is the server for everything (dhcp, pxe, suse install)
After this, I get a message that the SUSE installation source cannot be found. When trying to set it up by hand (nice it does that), I see that the default values it offers are the ones I expect (despite the probable DHCP oddness). But when it tries to mount the nfs install
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 17:51 +0100, Gunreben, Peter (Peter) wrote: source, it
fails with 'unknown error -1'.
Have you checked whether the nfs-export works properly, e.g. by mounting it manually? I had a similar problem, where I tried to export a loop-mounted directory tree. Only, a userspace-nfsserver can do that.
I can mount it from other systems. Using
mount -t nfs source:/vol1/distro/OpenSUSE10.0/suse10.0 /tmp/vv
I can read files and go into directories.
It just got back to my mind that I had an additional problem. For any reason I still do not know, I had to add insmod=<my_NIC_kernelmodule> to the kernel parameters in order to get everything work. Of course, you need to replace <my_NIC_kernelmodule> with the one you need. May be it's worth to give it a try.
I have this: insmod=e1000 When all eventually fails, I see that the module is loaded. There seems to be activity on eth0 as well. Is there no way to log access attempts for this? Beyond the dhcp stuff, which indicates, me thinks, that all is well. The computer does have two identical ethernet ports. I have tried one or the other, as well as both. I could have made a mistake in doing that test, but I don't know how. I do not see a dhcp request on an unexpected port. Only on the one I expect. I want to install 10 systems in the morning. And more after that. I didn't expect this part to be the problem. I was saving that for autoyast.
Peter.