Hi, I'm trying to install SLES 11 SP3 using Cobbler but it failed after downloading the NBP file. The error on the screen is Unable to fetch TFTP image.
I have a similiar setup for SLES 11 SP2 and it is working fine. The difference with this setup is I am installing SLES 11 SP3 on a IBM x3500 M5 server, which requires a bootable driver kit(BDK) to be installed prior to the installation of the OS itself. My setup is as follows: /var/lib/tftpboot> tree uefisp3 uefisp3 ├── biostest ├── bootx64.efi ├── elilo.conf ├── initrd ├── linux ├── memtest ├── message └── pxelinux.0 The initrd and linux is not from the SLES DVD, but from the BDK image. Quoting from https://drivers.suse.com/doc/Usage/Driver_Kits.html: Copy the kernel and initrd images from the driver kit iso image to the appropriate location on your tftp boot server. The initrd and kernel image are found under the /boot/x86_64/loader directory. I have tried changing the /etc/cobbler/dhcp.template by pointing the filename to uefisp3/bootx64.efi, pxelinux.0 and uefisp3/pxelinux.0 but none of them work. My cobbler distro report: Name : sles11sp3 Architecture : x86_64 Breed : suse Comment : Initrd : /driverkit/boot/x86_64/loader/initrd Kernel : /driverkit/boot/x86_64/loader/linux Kernel Options : {'install': ' http://192.168.0.10/sles/sles11sp3', 'addon': ' http://192.168.0.10/sles/driverkit'} Kernel Options (Post Install) : {} Kickstart Metadata : {} Management Classes : [] OS Version : sles10 Owners : ['admin'] Red Hat Management Key : <<inherit>> Red Hat Management Server : <<inherit>> Template Files : {} My elilo.conf (to be honest I'm not even sure if I need this file, but this is how I did it with SLES 11 SP2): /var/lib/tftpboot> cat uefisp3/elilo.conf prompt timeout=100 default=linux image=linux label=linux description = "Installation" initrd=initrd append="/images/sles11sp3/initrd textmode=1 install= http://192.168.0.10/sles/sles11sp3 autoyast= http://192.168.0.10/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/raid1drbd_sp3i addon= http://192.168.0.10/sles/driverkit"; Excerpt from pxelinux.cfg/default file: LABEL raid1drbd_sp3 kernel /images/sles11sp3/linux MENU LABEL raid1drbd_sp3 append initrd=/images/sles11sp3/initrd textmode=1 install= http://192.168.0.10/sles/sles11sp3 addon=http://192.168.0.10/sles/driverkit autoyast=http://192.168.0.10/cblr/svc/op/ks/profile/raid1drbd_sp3 ipappend 2 TFTP server works, as I did try to fetch some files from the TFTP server manually. In /var/log/messages there is an error "tftp: client does not accept options", which from what I read is most likely not relevant to the issue that I'm facing now. Anyone with success installing SLES 11 SP3 with the driver kit? Thanks.
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