Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

From: Bernd Nies (listuser_at_adnovum.ch)
Date: Tue Nov 15 2005 - 12:27:42 CET


Message-ID: <4379C62E.5070704@adnovum.ch>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 12:27:42 +0100
From: Bernd Nies <listuser@adnovum.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

Hi Kirk,

The installation with the SLES9 SP2 DVD works fine for a couple of
hardware (Dell Precision workstations and HP customer servers). When
trying to set up a Dell Poweredge 2850 with SCSI disks, there appears a
problem:

Booting and installing a minimal setup from DVD works fine. But after
first boot it loads GRUB, loads the kernel from /boot and then fails
when mounting the root device /dev/sda3 and freezes. The message is:

   Waiting for device /dev/sda3 to appear ...
   No root device found exiting to /bin/sh
   sh can't access ttz; job control turned off

Interestingly this also happens when booting from the DVD and give a
HTTP installation server as source.

When booting the server directly from the SLES9 SP2 CD1 and give a HTTP
installation server, then it works properly. Obviously there are bad
modules, kernel or ramdisk or an Yast installer bug.

I tried to burn the DVD with the boot directory from
SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD1/boot but then it asks for the
first CD to insert.

I think one has to merge the SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD1/boot
with that from SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/boot

Any ideas how to solve this?

Regards,
Bernd

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