Not able to Boot SUSE 12 using UEFI with PXE Server

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Hi,

I am booting Suse12 with UEFI using PXE server. I am getting the below error:
VFS:Cannot open root device “(null)” or unknown-block(0,0): error-6
Please append a correct “root=” boot option; here are the avaialbe partiontons:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(0,0)

I am new to Suse env. Please help me with above error. Below are the Partitioning and Answer file details which I am using.

Partitioning in YAST is given as below:

true vfat /boot/efi 131 240mb gpt swap swap 130 512mb ext3 / 131 max free

And my answer (configuration) file I am using as below:

default=0
timeout=1
splashimage=(nd)/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Redhat
root (nd)
localboot 0

The rest of this file is machine-generated

kernel /suse/suse13.2_x64/linux
append initrd=/suse/suse13.2_x64/initrd load_ramdisk=1 textmode=1 netdevice=eth0 autoyast=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/00-0C-29-B0-A3-CC install=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/suse/suse12x86_64

Thanks for solutions.

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Hi
So your title is Redhat? Your initrd is openSUSE 13.2? and your source is suse12?

default=0
timeout=1
splashimage=(nd)/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Redhat
root (nd)
localboot 0
# The rest of this file is machine-generated

kernel /suse/suse13.2_x64/linux
append initrd=/suse/suse13.2_x64/initrd load_ramdisk=1 textmode=1 netdevice=eth0 autoyast=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/00-0C-29-B0-A3-CC install=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/suse/suse12x86_64
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[QUOTE=malcolmlewis;26510]Hi
So your title is Redhat? Your initrd is openSUSE 13.2? and your source is suse12?

[CODE]
default=0
timeout=1
splashimage=(nd)/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Redhat
root (nd)
localboot 0

The rest of this file is machine-generated

kernel /suse/suse13.2_x64/linux
append initrd=/suse/suse13.2_x64/initrd load_ramdisk=1 textmode=1 netdevice=eth0 autoyast=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/00-0C-29-B0-A3-CC install=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/suse/suse12x86_64
[/CODE][/QUOTE]

No, Sorry I copied wrong file. Correct Snippet is as below.

default=0
timeout=1
splashimage=(nd)/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
root (nd)
localboot 0

The rest of this file is machine-generated

kernel /suse/suse12_x64/linux
append initrd=/suse/suse12_x64/initrd load_ramdisk=1 textmode=1 netdevice=eth0 autoyast=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/00-0C-29-B0-A3-CC install=http://192.168.10.5/datastore/suse/suse12x86_64