Hi, I've a lot of servers in a remote DC that I've no physical access to, they're running 10.2. I wish to upgrade them to 11.0 remotely, but for some reason it's not working correctly. Firstly I've been downloading the install kernel and initrd: cd /boot wget -O vmlinuz.install ftp://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/linux wget -O initrd.install ftp://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss/boot/i386/loader/initrd Then adding an entry into Grub: title Boot -- SUSE LINUX 11.0 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz.install noapic usessh=1 sshpassword="12345678" install=ftp://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/11.0/repo/oss hostip=xx.xx.xx.xx netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=xx.xx.xx.xx nameserver=xx.xx.xx.xx initrd /boot/initrd.install then using grubonce 1 to make it use that entry on next boot. Now the machine boots up and starts the network, I can ping it. But it never starts the installation program, so I'm assuming that it's because for whatever reason it's unable to download it. I'm doing this blind as I've no access other than SSH and there's no-one to plug in a monitor/KVM so I can see the output. As all the details are correct and I can use wget on the URL and download the files using the DNS server specified I'm thinking it's possibly because it's trying to use the wrong NIC. The machine has an internal card (eth0) and a PCI gigabit one (eth1), I'm thinking that as I'm using the latter, grub is trying to use the other despite there not being a connection to it (I know it start the network with the correct device as I can ping it, but I've run out of other ideas). I've done this remote upgrade method loads of times before without problem, the only thing I can see different here is the 2NIC's. If this is plausible is there a command to specify which device it should use? Cheers Matthew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org