[sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15

Vincent Moutoussamy vmoutoussamy at suse.com
Wed Dec 20 05:28:13 MST 2017


Hi,
> On 15 Dec 2017, at 11:04, Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk at suse.de> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Lance,
> 
> On Tue, Dec 12, Lance Ortiz wrote:
> 
>> I am working with Dell’s OS engineering team and they had some issues with PXE
>> booting SLE15.   Is there a PXE guide for SLE15?  Any thoughts on this issue?
> 
> We provide tftpboot-installer* RPMs for easy PXE boot installation.
> But this will most likely not fully solve your problem.
> I have one question to you here: where do the "method=" and "addon="
> options come from? I can neither find them in our documentation, nor
> do our developer know them.

Well, “addon=" is documented in the deployment guide 9.2.2.1 Installing Add-On
Products and Driver Updates:
https://www.suse.com/documentation/sles-12/singlehtml/book_sle_deployment/book_sle_deployment.html#sec.deployment.remoteinst.bootinst

But I can’t find “method=“, so I would also be interested to find out where does
this come from and see if we need to document it.

Regards,
--
Vincent Moutoussamy
SUSE Beta Program and SDK Project Manager

> The most comfortable way to do a network installation is either using
> a SMT server as installation source, or autoyast.
> 
>  Thorsten
> 
>> 
>> 
>> 1)      PXE Guide for SLES15 Installation:
>> 
>> We are adding below entry to our PXE server, but we are able to See and install
>> only Base Packages. It would help us if we can get a guide on how to properly
>> add these Add on modules to the PXE Entry.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> label SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15--x86_64
>> 
>>    menu title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15  x86_64
>> 
>>    kernel /distrotrees/16/kernel
>> 
>>    append initrd=/distrotrees/16/initrd method=http://<PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/
>> SLES15/Beta3/os/ repo=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>//suse/SLES15/Beta3/os/ addon=
>> http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Basesystem/ addon=http://
>> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Desktop-Applications/ addon=http://
>> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Desktop-Productivity addon=http://
>> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Development-Tools/ addon=http://
>> <PXE-SERVER-IP>/suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Legacy addon=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>
>> suse/SLES15/Beta3/package/Server-Applications/  install=http:// <PXE-SERVER-IP>
>> /suse/SLES15/Beta3/os/
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Lance Ortiz
>> 
>> Technical Account Manager (Dell)
>> 
> 
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> 
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