[sle-beta] Having trouble PXE booting SLE15

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Tue, Dec 19, Lance Ortiz wrote:

> 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

Ok, but the question in that bug is now a complete different than here
on the list ...

What they want is to use a SMT server as installation server.

  Thorsten

> 
> -----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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GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Jane Smithard, Graham Norton, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg)