Hi Volkmar, are you sure your dhcp-server is answering? If it does, probably the driver for your network card is missing in the intitrd. In this case you must put the driver module into your initrd. For example on a machine where your linux is installed do this: login as root ...edit /etc/sysconfig/kernel ...set INITRD_MODULES="forcedeth jbd ext3" cd /boot mkinitrd -k vmlinuz -i initrd Regards Alfred At 18:55 12.05.2005, Volkmar Glauche wrote:
... apologies for cross-posting this, but perhaps someone on this list can give some advice or has solved the problem below.
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 20:08:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Volkmar Glauche
To: suse-amd64@suse.com Subject: [suse-amd64] PXE install on Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T A64XP35 Hi, I am trying to do a PXE install of SuSE Linux Professional on a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo T A64XP35 box. However, it does seem to have problems initializing the network card after PXE. I have tried the following scenarios: 1) Boot from DVD with install=nfs://myserver/mydir. This works fine, the network card gets its IP over DHCP and starts the download. Yast detects the card as Asus CK804 (apparently using the forcedeth driver?).
2) Boot from the PXE PROM of the network card. This downloads the kernel (linux64 from the DVD) and initrd (initrd64 from DVD) and starts booting. The network card sends a DHCPDISCOVER 2 or 3 times, but does not answer the DHCPOFFER from the DHCP server. Thus it times out on mounting the installation source and I get into linuxrc. However, I did not have any luck to activate the network card manually, either. Any ideas?
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