Miles Fidelman <mfidel...@meetinghouse.net> wrote: > Well, I've been trying to do a remote install onto a server (Supermicro > X8SIE-LN4F motherboard) - booting via PXE, and using a serial-over-IP > terminal provided by the IPMI board.
> The serial-over-ip terminal, sort of works.... - I can get the installer > to load, and give me a boot> prompt, and a simple CR gets it running. I > can go all the way through, and it sure seems like I've partitioned the > drive, installed all the software, and so forth, but.... when I restart, > the system hangs. I'm guessing it might be a grub install problem, but > now I'm stuck... Does the IPMI give you a virtual CD/DVD drive, too? My experience with remote installations on Dell kit a couple of years ago was that the drive order changed after installation, and the boot code wasn't happy with that. I used to need to edit the kernel boot line, along with the hd(0,0) stanza, and then also fix up /etc/fstab. (That last has been handled somewhat better by referencing the root partition by label or uuid, but back then it wasn't done that way.) Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/7f4rj9xkqu....@news.roaima.co.uk
