January 2004 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

No Kernel installed
by Martin Möser 05 Jan '04

05 Jan '04

Hi List, since we build our custom-CD's (SLES8) with SP3, there will be no kernel installed by autoyast. As a result, all modules are missing, and /boot is almost empty, no boot-image or initrd in there. So the network interfaces don't work and the reboot fails because of the missing vmlinuz. We use a machine with two processors and therefore we need an smp-kernel installed which worked fine BEFORE we put the SP3-Packages into the repository. The needed kernel was detected and installed automatically. Any ideas? Regards, Martin Möser -- Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/

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SuSE 9.0 PXE boot problem
by Harald.Milz＠computacenter.com 04 Jan '04

04 Jan '04

Hi, since my notebook's CD-ROM drive is dying slowly I tried to install SuSE Linux 9.0 Prof. from my existing PXE/DHCP/TFTP server which already has working configs for 8.0 and 8.2: label 8.0 kernel kernel-8.0 append initrd=initrd-8.0 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.0" label 8.2 kernel kernel-8.2 append initrd=initrd-8.2 acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-8.2" As usual, copied boot/loader/linux and boot/loader/initrd to /tftpboot and added a config entry to pxelinux.cfg/default: label 9.0 kernel kernel-9.0 append initrd=initrd-9.0 ramdisk_size=65536 showopts ide=nodma acpi=off apm=off install="nfs://192.168.20.1/pub/suse/SuSE-9.0" which, apart from some additional options taken from the CD isolinux.cfg file, are identical to the ones above. The additional options don't change any of the descibed behaviour, which is: - notebook boots via pxelinux just fine, I get my text menu, enter 9.0 - kernel unpacks, and ... - the screen is an 80x25 chaos of ASCII characters with various attributes, like blink, etc. Machine stops. Nothing happens. It looks as if the kernel was unpacked into the EGA video memory region at segment b800. Any clue what happens? Mit freundlichen Gruessen - Best regards Harald Milz Senior Consultant CC CompuNet AG & Co. oHG A part of Computacenter plc Hoerselbergstrasse 7, 81677 Muenchen, Germany Phone: +49 (0)89 45712-161, Fax: -331, Mobile: +49 (0)173 3866604

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SLES 8 SP3 Bugs?
by Hans Kamm 01 Jan '04

01 Jan '04

Hi, I think, there are some bugs with the SLES SP3 installer. e. g. some packages get always installed (SuSEFirewall, providers, jfsutils, rsh, rsync...) I' ve set <base></base> and no addons. I don't want to delete the packages after isntallation. I think without sax2 you can't do a automated installation with a minimal X-system. The ntp-server will get no entry in the /etc/ntp.conf. The entry under /etc/sysconfig/xntp exists. <ntp_servers config:type="list"> <ntp_server>ntp-server</ntp_server> </ntp_servers> How to eject CD-Rom before reboot? Hans _________________________________________________________________ Schützen Sie Ihren Posteingang vor unerwünschten E-Mails. http://www.msn.de/antispam/prevention/junkmailfilter Jetzt Hotmail-Junk-Filter aktivieren!

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