Bug 120877 - boot from network not possible
Summary: boot from network not possible
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: SUSE LINUX 10.0
Classification: openSUSE
Component: Other (show other bugs)
Version: Final
Hardware: Other All
: P5 - None : Normal
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Assignee: Michael Gross
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Reported: 2005-10-06 21:18 UTC by Andreas Klein
Modified: 2005-11-08 12:53 UTC (History)
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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.