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Q: Netinstall images failing (10.11.5)

Setup

Server:

Mac Pro 5.1(Early 2009) running 10.11.5 (just updated)

     Apple Server 5.1.5

 

Machine to be imaged:

Macbook Pro mid 2012.

 

Server and imaging target are on the same switch and subnet (all are on ethernet, no wireless)

 

Goal: clean install target machines with 10.11.5 using the netinstall image

 

I have created a netinstall image of El Capitan using SIU. 

I booted the target by holding down that option key. 

All our images came up. 

Chose my netinstall image.

It appears to be working I get the graphic with the progress bar and the little globe.

Partway through it fails with a (kernel?) panic and then quickly restarts.

 

I attached an image of the panic screen at the bottom of this post.

 

Things I have tried:

  • creating the netinstall image on a different machine (another Macbook Pro on 10.11.5)
  • creating a netboot image
  • installing  clean 10.11.5 on an external machine and then booting that machine into target mode, and using it for the source of a netrestore image
  • using a machine with Yosemite (10.10.5) to create a yosemite netinstall image

 

all produced the same result (I did not take a picture each time and the machines restart before I can read very much so I am not sure that it is EXACTLY the same, but it looks the same)

 

More info:  The server has some images that do work.  We use the Casper suite and have some images we have been using for sometime that were created using a tool called AutocasperNBI that worked and still work just fine. (I can't use those because I need to clean install these outside of the Casper framework).

 

I am at a loss.

panic.jpg

Mac Pro, OS X El Capitan (10.11.5)

Posted on Jun 10, 2016 10:52 AM

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Q: Netinstall images failing (10.11.5)

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  • by keg55,

    keg55 keg55 Jun 12, 2016 7:57 AM in response to MDS_skylion
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    Jun 12, 2016 7:57 AM in response to MDS_skylion

    I don't see where you have Availability - Make available over:  set to NFS on the Server side under NetInstall for your 10.11.5 image.

     

    I only run OS X Server on a home LAN and have not had any issue serving 10.11.5 over NetInstall. I have read where others who run this on a corporate LAN have issues with 10.11.4 and 10.11.5 images even when all the settings are correct. So, if this is happening to you, then it could be an OS X Server issue.

  • by Brian Nesse,

    Brian Nesse Brian Nesse Jun 13, 2016 8:09 AM in response to MDS_skylion
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    Jun 13, 2016 8:09 AM in response to MDS_skylion

    You are panicing because it's failed to mount BaseSystem.dmg. This is likely a Server configuration issue (i.e. something [HTTP, TFTP, NFS] isn't configured/running properly.) It could also mean that there is something seriously wrong with the image... if other images work, try recreating the image.