It sounds like the initrd doesn't have a corresponding module for your NIC. What sort of machine/NIC?

I've seen this with ESX hosts in the past. If you create a VM with a VMXNET adapter, it'll do the initial PXE boot to pull down its bootloader, which then doesn't have a kernel module for the VMXNET out-of-the-box (because that'd normally come with VMWare Tools).

What's the output of 'lsmod' on the running system? And if you dig into the initrd for the distribution, does it contain an equivalent module?

Will.


On 24 January 2013 14:45, Michael <durm@seas.upenn.edu> wrote:

A little more info:
I can connect a machine that is already booted to a working OS, get dhcp and see what appears to be the
contents of the install DVD that cobbler imported when I open http://192.168.100.1/cblr/links/openSUSE121-x86_64 in a
browser.

On 01/24, Michael wrote:
> Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 09:37:46 -0500
> From: Michael <durm@seas.upenn.edu>
> To: cobbler@lists.fedorahosted.org
> Subject: kernel/nic problems?
>
>
> I have a cobbler server running openSUSE 12.1 that will deploy openSUSE 12.1.
> Currently systems get dhcp then pxe boot via tftp and fail to find the install repo.
> At that point I can manually specify where the repo is (http://192.168.100.1/cblr/links/openSUSE121-x86_64)
> and I'm told that there is no interface, and that the kernel may not support my nic.
>
> Has anyone been through something like this?
>
> --
> Michael

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