[sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15

[Lance Ortiz]

Looks like Dell just filed a bug on this issue:

[Bug 1073409] [SLES15] Unable to create a PXE Setup with option to Select Custom Modules from Add-on Product

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072889


-----Original Message-----
From: sle-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sle-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Thorsten Kukuk
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2017 3:05 AM
To: sle-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15


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.

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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