[sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15

[Josef Reidinger]

V Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:24:50 +0100
"Scott Bahling" <sbahling at suse.com> napsáno:

> On Tue, 2017-12-12 at 20:45 +0000, 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?
> >  
> > 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/  
> 
> I'm also not aware of the method= or repo= options, but the addon=
> option should be specified once, and be a comma separated list of URLs
> for multiple add-ons.
> 
> -Scott

Good hit, it is right that it have to be comma separated. I check code
and it split addon with comma ( if you are interested, this is
responsible code [1] ).

Josef

[1]
https://github.com/yast/yast-add-on/blob/master/src/clients/inst_add-on.rb#L56