Error Message: "No Start Profiles Found" When Starting the Instance?

After rebooting the test drive machine, your SAP system isn't starting anymore, but saying no start profiles found.

The install script configures an alias for your network card, which is then mapped to a so called "virtual hostname" nw4host (or respectively "si4host"), via /etc/hosts. If the 'startsap' can't find this virtual hostname, it can't resolve the paths to the SAP instance profiles.

SUSE versions newer than SUSE Linux 9.1 are using a different startup configuration for network aliases. Therefore the scripts placed in the directory '/etc/sysconfig/network/' won't work anymore. You will find there a script called 'ifcfg-eth0:0', which contains the configuration of your network alias. Normally look like this:

STARTMODE='onboot'

BOOTPROTO='static'

IPADDR='195.155.155.1/24' (same as /etc/hosts used for host)

DEVICE='eth0:0'

The new SUSE network configuration doesn't look anymore for the eth0:0, but for a script called ifcfg-eth-id-::::: where represents the MAC address of your network card. In this script you can add the following lines:

IPADDR_0='' (same as in /etc/hosts used for host)

NETMASK_0='255.255.255.0'

LABEL_0=0

Afterwards you can restart your network by typing 'rcnetwork restart'. Then you should see in the output of 'ifconfig' a new interface eth0:0 using the specified address. This interface eth0:0 should now also appear after a restart of the machine. The SAP system should now be usable again