On Sat, 16 Jul 2011, Jerold Ponko wrote:
I'm setting up a PXE boot server to install SLES SP1 on Dell R5500 and HP z800 workstations that use Broadcom NICS. If I use dhcpcd to configure the NIC via the dhcp server, autoyast fails to find the SLES repository because the NIC isn't actively sending or receiving packets anywhere from 4 to 7 seconds after ifconfig says it's up. I does get a dhcp ip address before autoyast fail to find the repository. If I ping the workstation from the pxe server, I can confirm that the pings succeed only after autoyast brings up the red text screen saying it failed to find the install repository. If I use a fixed ip address using hostip=192.168.2.10 netmask=255.255.255.0, for example on the PXE server, I also have to pass NetWait=15 in the APPEND statement on the PXE server for it to work reliably. Apparently, the "NetWait" parameter doesn't work in conjunction with "Usedhcp" as I don't see the 15 second delay with "Usedhcp" as I do with a fixed ip address.
Just checked and netwait=N also works with dhcp as expected.
Another issue is the initrd uses an old version of dhcpcd (v3.2.3) which doesn't support the whitelist feature of dhcpcd version 5.2.12. The whitelist
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