Colin Topliss wrote:

Hi all,

Here's a quick update (on account of my web-mail client not doing a 'reply-all' so my responses never made it to the mailing list)....

1) DHCP related answers...

I am not using DHCP. I have supplied the network details on the command line, and my final NIC configuration details are in the XML configuration file.

I decided not to use DHCP because of the network topology.

With dhcp, one can increase the timeout..

2) instmode=http

I hadn't thought about using this option. I sort of assumed that the install=http option was enough to tell YaST what I was up to. I also can't see what effect that would have on the timeout problem.

Gave it a go though (couldn't wait until tomorrow) - and it did not help. Worse still, the initrd command line is now so long it gets truncated! :-(

This has should not change anything. install=http:// is enough and it implies insmode=http.

3) Spanning tree option on the switch.

Although not using DHCP, this has raised the question about timeouts on bringing the switch port on-line in a timely fashion. I have noticed in the past that, when 'plugging in' a new cable, the port took some time to initialise. Now this may not be *exactly* the same scenario now (I'm not un-plugging/plugging in the server), but maybe the switch is doing something funky. Unfortunately I will have to wait until tomorrow to take a look at it to see what its up to.

The problem is with the broadcom driver. some people had success with the tg3 driver. Last note: This has nothing to do with autoyast. Its a general problem. At this point it behaves just like regular install. autoyast is invoked very late and after yast2 starts. Anas

Thanks for all the responses so far.

Col.

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