PXE install fails with SCSI disks
I’m building a PXE install lab for SUSE and other flavors of Linux. The DHCP and tftp servers are working. Note: I can fully install Red Hat from this lab but SUSE (SLES9 rc5) shows the following symptoms: 1. a cdrom install on the target system runs to completion in graphics mode. System is an HP PC with SCSI disk. 2. PXE install runs in non X-window mode (text) and fails to load scsi controllers – cannot find any disks. Fails even when modules are manually added. Here is the content of /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default: default suse prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 200 label redhat kernel redhat.kernel append initrd=redhat.root ramdisk_size=65536 label suse kernel suse.kernel append initrd=suse.root ramdisk_size=65536\ install=http://10.0.3.11/suse/CD1/ The file suse.kernel was copied from /boot/loader/linux in CD1 while suse.root was taken from /boot/loader/initrd in the same CD. I copied the contents of each CD into their own directories – I have CD1 – CD6 in the directory specified by http://10.0.3.11/suse/CD[1-6]. My test target system is a Celeron with 256MB Ram and an IDE disk; this setup fully installs SLES9. The only material change from this to the production lab is that the target system in the production lab has a SCSI disk and 1GB of ram. Help! Please Cheers -- Steve Glines voice: 978-952-6340 www.is-cs.com fax: 978-952-8524 145 Foster Street cell: 617-549-7274 Littleton MA 01460 I'm a complex person. I have a real and an imaginary part.
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I’m building a PXE install lab for SUSE and other flavors of Linux.
The DHCP and tftp servers are working. Note: I can fully install Red Hat from this lab but SUSE (SLES9 rc5) shows the following symptoms:
1. a cdrom install on the target system runs to completion in graphics mode. System is an HP PC with SCSI disk. 2. PXE install runs in non X-window mode (text) and fails to load scsi controllers – cannot find any disks. Fails even when modules are manually added.
Here is the content of /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default:
default suse prompt 1 display boot.msg timeout 200
label redhat kernel redhat.kernel append initrd=redhat.root ramdisk_size=65536
label suse kernel suse.kernel append initrd=suse.root ramdisk_size=65536\ install=http://10.0.3.11/suse/CD1/
What is suse.root exactly? Btw, To get graphical installer, you need to add vga=791 or something similar. Anas
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