1. Use mknbi-linux from the package mknbi 2. Better use the initrd from the suse/images/boot/

Anas * Claude Arnold arnold@picard.ups-tlse.fr [Feb 25. 2003 13:04]:

Sorry for the previous message it was send in a wrong subject... so again.

Hello,

I trie to install suse8.0 using autoyast throught the network. The steps I use are the following:

1. the server has a directory /tftpboot.
2. In this directory are the linux, initrd and syslinux.cfg files, these

are extracted from the suse8.0/disks/bootdisk (copied from the CD's) file using mount -oloop. 3. In syslinux.cfg I put the following lines:

====================== default autoyast

# default label autoyast kernel linux append console=ttyS0,9800 console tty initrd=initrd \ autoyast=nfs://nfs_server/tftpboot/suse80/install.xml \ install=nfs://nfs_server/tftpboot/suse80 verbose 1

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4. Next I create a netboot file using mknbi-linux (which comes from

netboot package): mknbi-linux -a "linuxrc=auto rw ramdisk_size=65536" -r initrd linux netboot

5. I boot from client, it loads the netboot file and after some messages

I have the following error message:

... RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 4048k freed Root-NFS: No NFS server availble, giving up ...

is there a problem with the initrd file ? Can some one help me ?

Thanks

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Claude Arnold

Laboratoire Emile Picard - UMR 5580 Université Paul Sabatier - UFR MIG 118, rte de Narbonne, 31062 TOULOUSE Cedex 4

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