New subject: [suse-autoinstall] PXE install fails with SCSI disks

7 Sep 2004

      Hi Anas, Thanks for the help. I've made all the fixes you and Marcin
Kurc suggested but the system still refuses to see the scsi disks. Here
is the data. The target system is an HP Proliant ML350 G3 with a single
40GB SCSI disk.
The script shown in sles9/CD1/docu/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html doesn't work so
I've modified it thus (feel free to reuse it):
#From the top directory
umask 0
mkdir -p sles9/CD1
# now copy the contents of SLES CD1 into this directory
echo "Mount CD1"
read x
mount /dev/cdrom
sleep 10
cp -r /cdrom/* sles9/CD1
eject
mkdir -p core9/CD1
# now copy the contents of SLES CD2 into this directory
echo "Mount CD2"
read x
sleep 10
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -r /cdrom/* core9/CD1
eject
mkdir -p core9/CD2
# now copy the contents of SLES CD3 into this directory
echo "Mount CD3"
read x
sleep 10
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -r /cdrom/* core9/CD2
eject
mkdir -p core9/CD3
# now copy the contents of SLES CD4 into this directory
echo "Mount CD4"
read x
sleep 10
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -r /cdrom/* core9/CD3
eject
mkdir -p core9/CD4
now copy the contents of SLES CD5 into this directory
echo "Mount CD5"
read x
sleep 10
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -r /cdrom/* core9/CD4
eject
mkdir -p core9/CD5
now copy the contents of SLES CD6 into this directory
echo "Mount CD6"
read x
sleep 10
mount /dev/cdrom
cp -r /cdrom/* core9/CD5
eject
ln -s sles9/CD1/boot boot
ln -s sles9/CD1/content content
ln -s sles9/CD1/control.xml control.xml
ln -s sles9/CD1/media.1 media.1
mkdir -p yast
echo "/sles9/CD1 /sles9/CD1
/core9/CD1 /core9/CD1" > yast/instorder
echo "/sles9/CD1 /sles9/CD1
/core9/CD1 /core9/CD1" > yast/order
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After PXE booting the system stalls when it can't find a hard disk.
When I look in /var/log/boot.log I find:
kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter errorno=2
If I run "/sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter" directly from a shell I
get "Kernel requires old modprobe no /sbin/modprobe.old."
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Here is the current line from my default file:
label suse
  kernel suse.kernel
  append initrd=suse.root ramdisk_size=65536 \
install=http://10.0.3.11/suse
----------------------------------------------
Here is the output of "find . -type d":
.
./sles9
./sles9/CD1
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/cz
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/de
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/en_US
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/es
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/fr
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/it
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/nl
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/pl
./sles9/CD1/SLES-LICENSE/pt_BR
./sles9/CD1/boot
./sles9/CD1/boot/loader
./sles9/CD1/docu
./sles9/CD1/docu/de
./sles9/CD1/docu/en
./sles9/CD1/docu/es
./sles9/CD1/docu/fr
./sles9/CD1/docu/HOWTOs
./sles9/CD1/docu/it
./sles9/CD1/docu/ja
./sles9/CD1/docu/ko
./sles9/CD1/docu/pt_BR
./sles9/CD1/docu/zh_CN
./sles9/CD1/dosutils
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/dparam
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ext2tool
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ext2tool/ext2fs
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ext2tool/linux
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ext2tool/src
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ext2tool/sys
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips15
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips15/restorrb
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips15/source
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips20
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips20/restorrb
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/fips/fips20/source
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/gtar109
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/gzip
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/install
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/lfn
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/loadlin
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/loadlin/doc
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/loadlin/src
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/ltools
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/pkunzip
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/putty
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/rawrite
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/rawwritewin
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/tightvnc
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/untgz
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/weirdx
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/weirdx/config
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/xfs186
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/xfs32-11
./sles9/CD1/dosutils/zipzp715
./sles9/CD1/media.1
./sles9/CD1/suse
./sles9/CD1/suse/i586
./sles9/CD1/suse/noarch
./sles9/CD1/suse/nosrc
./sles9/CD1/suse/setup
./sles9/CD1/suse/setup/descr
./sles9/CD1/suse/src
./sles9/CD1/yast
./sles9/CD1/yast/core9
./sles9/CD1/yast/core9/media.1
./sles9/CD1/yast/core9/suse
./sles9/CD1/yast/core9/suse/setup
./sles9/CD1/yast/core9/suse/setup/descr
./core9
./core9/CD1
./core9/CD1/media.1
./core9/CD1/suse
./core9/CD1/suse/i586
./core9/CD1/suse/i686
./core9/CD1/suse/noarch
./core9/CD1/suse/setup
./core9/CD1/suse/setup/descr
./core9/CD2
./core9/CD2/media.2
./core9/CD2/suse
./core9/CD2/suse/i586
./core9/CD2/suse/i686
./core9/CD2/suse/noarch
./core9/CD3
./core9/CD3/media.3
./core9/CD3/suse
./core9/CD3/suse/i586
./core9/CD3/suse/i686
./core9/CD3/suse/noarch
./core9/CD3/suse/src
./core9/CD4
./core9/CD4/media.4
./core9/CD4/suse
./core9/CD4/suse/nosrc
./core9/CD4/suse/src
./core9/CD5
./core9/CD5/media.5
./core9/CD5/suse
./core9/CD5/suse/nosrc
./core9/CD5/suse/src
./yast
Marcin Kurc wrote:
...
for graphical install you can say 'textmode=0' after 'install*'
please send me your 'default' file and output of 'find . -type d' in the
suse top directory
thanks,
Marcin Kurc
Linux Impact Team
Novell, Inc
(973) 493-6235
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Steve Glines sglines@is-cs.com 09/01/04 3:37 pm >>>
Thanks - I missed that one and was following the instructions that came
with SUSE 9.1 Pro. It still boots into the non-X format via PXE and X
when I do a CDROM install. Is there a way to make it boot into Graphics
mode. The lab I'm building is supposed to simulate the experience of
installing via CDROM. By the way this is going to go into HP's main
learning lab. The Red Hat version is being used 30-50 times a day.
Now I'm getting "Network error 404 not found."
Cheers
Steve
Marcin Kurc wrote:
...
it is not a problem with PXE, your installation tree is not configured
correctly
You should either use SLES9 system to build the tree or configure it
according to the docu/RELEASE-NOTES.en.html which can be found on cd #1
Also, you need to point you install to top dir not CD1 i.e.
'install=_/http://10.0.3.11/suse/_'
thanks,
Marcin Kurc
Linux Impact Team
Novell, Inc
(973) 493-6235
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Steve Glines sglines@is-cs.com 09/01/04 2:30 pm >>>
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%5B1-6].
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.
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