PXE boot and root filesystem via iSCSI on SLES 11

Hi all,

  I am trying to boot a SLES 11 server from iSCSI storage using a PXE 
boot server without luck. To accomplish this I followed this guide (used 
for SLES10): 
http://www.novell.com/communities/node/7034/pxe-booting-nfs-or-iscsi-roots-diskless-environment.

  I think my problem is with default gateway. This SLES 11 server has 
two ethernet nics: one attached to iSCSI storage and another attached to 
my internal lan. Ok, first installation phase goes well, I can partition 
disk, install grub, select software, etc. But when server reboots to 
initiate second installation phase, start process stops sometimes on 
"Starting udev:", sometimes when "logging to console" ...It's completely 
random.

  But, second installation phase becomes possible when I put as default 
gateway an IP from iSCSI network ... Obviously, I need default gateway 
configured on nic attached to my internal network, but it doesn't works.

  I know that this scenario isn't supported by Novell, but I need to 
install this server on a iSCSI lun and boot from it. And another point: 
this server is installed under a VMWare ESXi 4 server.

  Can somebody helps me?

More info: (all IPs that appears are from iSCSI network)

a) PXE server configuration:

# SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 Server Installation
#label sles11
#  kernel sles11-x86_64/linux
#  append initrd=sles11-x86_64/initrd-install 
ip=172.26.60.4:172.26.60.5:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.248:iscsicli03:eth0:none 
vga=normal showopts ramdisk_size=65536 
install=http://172.25.50.18/install usessh=1
sshpassword=joder1234 TargetAddress=172.26.60.1 withiscsi=1

# SuSE Enterprise Linux 11 Server
label sles11
   kernel sles11-x86_64/vmlinuz
   append initrd=sles11-x86_64/initrd 
ip=172.26.60.4:172.26.60.5:0.0.0.0:255.255.255.248:iscsicli03:eth0:none 
vga=normal showopts TargetAddress=172.26.60.1 
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-149455400000000000000
0000020000000100000002000000-part2 
resume=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-1494554000000000000000000020000000100000002000000-part1 
splash=silent

implicit        0
display         message
prompt          1
timeout         100


b) My dhcpd.conf

ddns-updates off;
ddns-update-style none;
ignore client-updates;

subnet 172.26.60.0 netmask 255.255.255.248 {
         range dynamic-bootp             172.26.60.4;
         option routers                  172.26.60.5;
         option subnet-mask              255.255.255.248;
#       option domain-name              "virt.hpulabs.org";
#       option domain-name-servers      172.26.50.14;
         default-lease-time              21600;
         max-lease-time                  43200;
         next-server                     172.26.60.6;
         filename                        "pxelinux.0";
}

host iscsicli03 {
         hardware ethernet 00:16:3e:ca:2d:f4;
         fixed-address 172.26.60.4;

-- 
CL Martinez
carlopmart {at} gmail {d0t} com
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