Bug 120877

Summary:	boot from network not possible
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Andreas Klein <asklein>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	Michael Gross <mgross>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	ug
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
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Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
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Description Andreas Klein 2005-10-06 21:18:07 UTC

Booting the 10.0 final from network is not possible.
- boot the machine from the network card (PXE)
- pxelinux.0 is loaded without problems from the tftp-server
- the kernel begins to load from the network from the tftp-server
- before loading of the kernel is finished, weird symbols start blinking on the
  monitor
- the machine hangs

This worked fine with all betas including RC1 !!!!!!

This feature is absolutely necessary, when installing large clusters with autoyast.

Comment 1 Thorsten Kukuk 2005-10-07 05:26:06 UTC

And works fine for me.
Does it work if you install from CD?

Comment 2 Andreas Klein 2005-10-07 07:29:28 UTC

Yes, booting from DVD works.
I just tried again RC1 and it still works.
The GM does not work. I tried on Tyan S2885, on a Tyan single Opteron board, on
the Tyan Tiger dual Athlon MP and on one Asus board with P3.
Network cards were: broadcom, intel e1000, rtl8139, and VIA Rhine.
All of these machines can boot all betas and the RC1, but all of them refuse to
boot the GM.

Comment 3 Michael Gross 2005-10-07 11:27:27 UTC

Assinging to Thorsten in the hope that this is OK ;)

Comment 5 Michael Gross 2005-11-02 16:44:06 UTC

Sorry this bug got lost, because it was assigned directly to me rather than the screening-team.

Uwe: Can you help here? If not, assign it back to the BNC-Team. Thanks.

Comment 6 Uwe Gansert 2005-11-02 16:49:00 UTC

I did a lot of pxe boots with SL10.0 RC4.
I can't imagine what's going wrong there - sorry.

Comment 7 Michael Gross 2005-11-02 17:06:55 UTC

OK then I'm forced to close this bug.
Andreas: Obviously this bug cannot be reproduced, which makes it virtually impossible to fix for us. Sorry.

Comment 8 Andreas Klein 2005-11-08 12:53:58 UTC

I just recompiled the kernel. Then I moved my kernel and the initrd with the modules from my kernel to the installation server and it works.