Hello, I am using the Grub floppy to initiate system boot via bootp & tftpd. It is able to locate and load the kernel, but when it gets to the SuSE Installation Program it tries to locate the infofile and then moves on to a screen where it says "Please make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive!". I have supplied a location for the installation source, but it doesn't seem to be finding it. I am specifying the locations of everything in the menu.lst on the Grub disk, as my DHCP server setup must remain plain vanilla if possible. Here is what I have for the menu.lst: color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1 title autoinstall-bootp bootp tftpserver 192.168.122.160 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=(nd)/suse80 serverdir=(nd)/suse80 autoyast=(nd)/autoinst.xml initrd (nd)/initrd Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Cheers, Amanda -- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom 020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk
* Amanda Dahl,(4686) <amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk> [Nov 15. 2002 16:08]:
Hello, I am using the Grub floppy to initiate system boot via bootp & tftpd. It is able to locate and load the kernel, but when it gets to the SuSE Installation Program it tries to locate the infofile and then moves on to a screen where it says "Please make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive!". I have supplied a location for the installation source, but it doesn't seem to be finding it. I am specifying the locations of everything in the menu.lst on the Grub disk, as my DHCP server setup must remain plain vanilla if possible. Here is what I have for the menu.lst:
color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1
title autoinstall-bootp bootp tftpserver 192.168.122.160 from the grub manual: Caution: This command exists only for backward compatibility. Use ifconfig (see ifconfig) instead.
root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=(nd)/suse80 serverdir=(nd)/suse80 autoyast=(nd)/autoinst.xml
I am not sure whether this is possible. install needs a valid URI, i,e, install=nfs://192.168.1.1/suse80 Same applies to autoyast. Anas
initrd (nd)/initrd
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Amanda
-- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom
020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax
amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk
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Hello, I've changed my menu.lst to the following and it still cannot find the Installation Source: \--------BEGIN menu.lst---------- color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1 title autoinstall-bootp bootp ifconfig --server=192.168.122.160 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/suse80 server=192.168.122.160 serverdir=/tftpboot autoyast=default initrd (nd)/initrd -------------END menu.lst --------\ It finds: - Both the initrd and linux, which are located in /tftpboot. It can't seem to find: -The autoinst.xml, which is located both in /tftpboot and on the floppy. -The SuSE repository, which is located in /tftpboot/suse80. My TFTP server is configured to use /tftpboot as the root dir. The directory /tftpboot is exported, and the NFS server is running. I can mount it elsewhere. Does anyone have any idea why it cannot find the Installation Source? Many thanks, Amanda Anas Nashif wrote:
* Amanda Dahl,(4686) <amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk> [Nov 15. 2002 16:08]:
Hello, I am using the Grub floppy to initiate system boot via bootp & tftpd. It is able to locate and load the kernel, but when it gets to the SuSE Installation Program it tries to locate the infofile and then moves on to a screen where it says "Please make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive!". I have supplied a location for the installation source, but it doesn't seem to be finding it. I am specifying the locations of everything in the menu.lst on the Grub disk, as my DHCP server setup must remain plain vanilla if possible. Here is what I have for the menu.lst:
color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1
title autoinstall-bootp bootp tftpserver 192.168.122.160
from the grub manual: Caution: This command exists only for backward compatibility. Use ifconfig (see ifconfig) instead.
root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=(nd)/suse80 serverdir=(nd)/suse80 autoyast=(nd)/autoinst.xml
I am not sure whether this is possible. install needs a valid URI, i,e, install=nfs://192.168.1.1/suse80 Same applies to autoyast.
Anas
initrd (nd)/initrd
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Amanda
-- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom
020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax
amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk
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-- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom 020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk
Here is my config which seems to work note that all of the "info" options are on the same line as the kernel I have another question, what is "framebuffer 1" doing, I assumed it would enable framebuffer for a gui install, but that doesn't work on my hardware. Is there something "framebuffer 1" is doing that "vga=788" isn't ? ----------------------------------------------- color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 #framebuffer 1 title autoinstall-bootp bootp root (nd) ifconfig --server=192.168.0.1 kernel (nd)/linux vga=788 language=english netdevice=eth0 server=192.168.0.1 serverdir=/home/ftp/pub/suse install=nfs://192.168.0.1/home/ftp/pub/suse autoyast=nfs://192.168.0.1/home/ftp/pub/suse/autoyast.xml initrd (nd)/initrd ------------------------------------------------- ...aaron.mcsorley@amd.com Amanda Dahl,(4686) wrote:
Hello, I've changed my menu.lst to the following and it still cannot find the Installation Source:
\--------BEGIN menu.lst----------
color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1
title autoinstall-bootp bootp ifconfig --server=192.168.122.160 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=nfs://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/suse80 server=192.168.122.160 serverdir=/tftpboot autoyast=default initrd (nd)/initrd
-------------END menu.lst --------\
It finds: - Both the initrd and linux, which are located in /tftpboot.
It can't seem to find: -The autoinst.xml, which is located both in /tftpboot and on the floppy. -The SuSE repository, which is located in /tftpboot/suse80.
My TFTP server is configured to use /tftpboot as the root dir. The directory /tftpboot is exported, and the NFS server is running. I can mount it elsewhere.
Does anyone have any idea why it cannot find the Installation Source?
Many thanks, Amanda
Anas Nashif wrote:
* Amanda Dahl,(4686) <amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk> [Nov 15. 2002 16:08]:
Hello, I am using the Grub floppy to initiate system boot via bootp & tftpd. It is able to locate and load the kernel, but when it gets to the SuSE Installation Program it tries to locate the infofile and then moves on to a screen where it says "Please make sure that CD number 1 is in your drive!". I have supplied a location for the installation source, but it doesn't seem to be finding it. I am specifying the locations of everything in the menu.lst on the Grub disk, as my DHCP server setup must remain plain vanilla if possible. Here is what I have for the menu.lst:
color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1
title autoinstall-bootp bootp tftpserver 192.168.122.160
from the grub manual: Caution: This command exists only for backward compatibility. Use ifconfig (see ifconfig) instead.
root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux install=(nd)/suse80 serverdir=(nd)/suse80 autoyast=(nd)/autoinst.xml
I am not sure whether this is possible. install needs a valid URI, i,e, install=nfs://192.168.1.1/suse80 Same applies to autoyast.
Anas
initrd (nd)/initrd
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Cheers, Amanda
-- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom
020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk
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