RE: [opensuse-autoinstall] NIC disappears on PXE booted suse client after TFTP.
Hi all, Under Unix (and Linux), // gets interpreted as a / so it shouldn't matter. Regards Colin. -----Original Message----- From: Uwe Gansert [mailto:ug@suse.de] Sent: 01 February 2010 11:37 To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] NIC disappears on PXE booted suse client after TFTP. on Monday 01 February 2010 Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 wrote:
When I try a PXE boot it DHCPs the address and downloads the SP3 initrd, and now the network cards appear, but it falls back to an "Activating manual install..." menu. I thought that it could not download the autoinst.xml from the NFS share,
no, if you see that message, AutoYaST has not even tried to read the XML profile. It can not read the installation system.
The PXE file contains: /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/01-d8-d3-85-5a-83-38.sles10_SP3_x86_64:
default SLES10_SP3_x86_64 # install SLES10_SP3 - generic profile label SLES10_SP3_x86_64 kernel sles10_sp3_x86_64/linux append initrd=sles10_sp3_x86_64/initrd ramdisk_size=65536 install=nfs://10.205.8.145/export//export/sles10sp3_x86_64
is the "export//export" really correct? -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug listening to: "Black Heart [alpha]" by Edge Of Dawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org Ericsson Limited Registered Office: Unit 4, Midleton Gate, Guildford Business Park, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 8SG Registered Number in England and Wales: 942215 This communication is confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any unauthorised review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you believe this message has been sent to you in error, please notify the sender by replying to this transmission and delete the message without disclosing it. Thank you. Ericsson Limited does not enter into contracts or contractual obligations via electronic mail, unless otherwise agreed in writing between the parties concerned. E-mail including attachments is susceptible to data corruption, interruption, unauthorised amendment, tampering and viruses, and we only send and receive e-mails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, amendment, tampering or viruses or any consequences thereof. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
on Monday 01 February 2010 Colin Topliss wrote:
Under Unix (and Linux), // gets interpreted as a / so it shouldn't matter.
I know :) It's the double "export" that I'm not sure if it really should be there. The double slahes are of course okay. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug listening to: "Descent (Fractured Remix)" by Edge Of Dawn -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
Oh, the double export !! Oopps. Silly me. Uwe Gansert wrote:
on Monday 01 February 2010 Colin Topliss wrote:
Under Unix (and Linux), // gets interpreted as a / so it shouldn't matter.
I know :) It's the double "export" that I'm not sure if it really should be there. The double slahes are of course okay.
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The profile now works on two HP G6. Thank-you for spotting my rather embarrassing typos. On a related subject: I attempted to use the identical profile and PXE config file on another G6, but it would not load the driver for the NIC :( The file that contains the PXE boot information is a symbolic link, so I know that this is identical to the other file that was used for the G6 blades that just worked. I reinstalled again for good measure with the same PXE file again, to verify that I had not introduced any unwanted changes, on two other G6 blades and these worked flawlessly. The problematic blade has this NIC firmware: Broadcom NetExtreme version 5.0.17 The working blades have Broadcom NetExtreme v 5.0.17. In other words the same cards with the same firmware revision. Very strange. Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 wrote:
Oh, the double export !! Oopps. Silly me.
Uwe Gansert wrote:
on Monday 01 February 2010 Colin Topliss wrote:
Under Unix (and Linux), // gets interpreted as a / so it shouldn't matter.
I know :) It's the double "export" that I'm not sure if it really should be there. The double slahes are of course okay.
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On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 05:54:01AM -0800, Simon Loewenthal/NL/Tele2 wrote:
On a related subject: I attempted to use the identical profile and PXE config file on another G6, but it would not load the driver for the NIC :( The file that contains the PXE boot information is a symbolic link, so I know that this is identical to the other file that was used for the G6 blades that just worked.
I ran into some interesting issues with SP3 and symlinks on NFS installs. We setup our installation paths with the base directly and under that we have: DVD1 DVD2 and in the bath path, do a ln -s DVD1/* . When autoyast went to copy the media.1 path, it would fork a cp command and just copy the link.. not the files. That would result in a "can't find the installation source" error. We finally just made a copy of the media.1 path again and the rest of the links work fine. This has worked for ages.. something in SP3 changed. Just a thought to try a copy vs a link. -- Mike Marion-Unix SysAdmin/Staff IT Engineer-http://www.qualcomm.com Marge: "Bart's so well behaved now, maybe you and I can have a night out?" Homer: "Ooh, let's go to the waterpark. My 10 year ban ended yesterday!" ==> Simpsons -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
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