March 2003 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

Dual Processor and scsi Raid with 8.1
by Scott Simmons 02 Apr '03

02 Apr '03

I cannot seem to install SuSe 8.1 Dual processor and raid controller card. However 8.0 works fine. I spoke with Suse Tech support(not advanced) and they told me of a bug with 8.1, however I'm not able to find reference of the bug or anyway to fix it in any patches available. Does anyone have any info or can point me in the right direction to fix this? Thx -Scott

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RE: [suse-autoinstall] Dual Processor and scsi Raid with 8.1
by Scott Simmons 31 Mar '03

31 Mar '03

When you say manually you mean doing all patches by hand, not using 8.1 CD to do the upgrade, right? By chance do you know if it was a kernel level bug or SuSE specific? -----Original Message----- From: John Young [mailto:john_young@sonic.net] Sent: Monday, March 31, 2003 2:54 PM To: ssimmons(a)holdenandrew.com Cc: suse-autoinstall(a)suse.com Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] Dual Processor and scsi Raid with 8.1 Scott Simmons wrote: > I cannot seem to install SuSe 8.1 Dual processor and raid controller card. > However 8.0 works fine. I spoke with Suse Tech support(not advanced) and > they told me of a bug with 8.1, however I'm not able to find reference of > the bug or anyway to fix it in any patches available. Does anyone have any > info or can point me in the right direction to fix this? Thx I had a similar problem a few months ago (I may have even been one of the initial bug reporters for this). I ran out of time working on it, so my solution was to autoinstall 8.0, then manually upgrade to 8.1. Good luck, John Young

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Create popup window with prescript
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 29 Mar '03

29 Mar '03

Hi all I am using Autoyast2 with SuSE 8.1. I am use a prepartitioned System. I want to check if there is a swap-partition available. I know i can do this by using a prescript, but how can i create a installation stop with a popup message? thanks! bye Alexander

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Saving bootloader config error!
by SarelT＠videolab.co.za 26 Mar '03

26 Mar '03

Hi I get this "An error occurred during saving boot loader config". I am installing from custom CDROM and I want the bootloader to be written to the MBR. Any help will be appreciated. Regards Sarel Theron Engineer The Video Lab Tel: +27 (0)11 293 3123 Fax: +27 (0)11 293 3090 sarelt(a)videolab.co.za <mailto:sarelt@videolab.co.za> http://www.videolab.co.za <http://www.videolab.co.za/> "Some days you are the bug; some days you are the windshield". Disclaimer and confidentiality note The information in this e-mail is confidential and is legally privileged. It is intended solely for the addressee. If this email is not intended for you, you may not copy, distribute, or disclose the included information to any one If you are not the intended recipient please delete the mail. Whilst all reasonable steps have been taken to ensure the accuracy and integrity of all data transmitted electronically, no liability is accepted if the data, for whatever reason, is corrupt or does not reach it's intended destination. All business is undertaken, subject to our standard trading conditions which are available on request.

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Using smbfs instead of nfs
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 20 Mar '03

20 Mar '03

hi all I want to use smbfs instead of nfs for installationserver. But when i try to do this with boot option: append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 autoyast=smb://IP/dist/dir/suselinux81_v03.xml install=smb://89.11.2.3/dist/dir or append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 autoyast=smbfs://IP/dist/dir/suselinux81_v03.xml install=smbfs://89.11.2.3/dist/dir I allways get a failure like: Cant not found Installationfiles... or Could not find image... ( which image??) when i you smbfs:// the module for smbfs and network will not be loaded when i use smb:// the module for smbfs will not be loaded but the network module will be loaded when i use nfs:// all needed modules will be loaded. Any ideas? Thanks! bye Alexander

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Re: [suse-autoinstall] Runlevel Problem
by Kliegl Holger 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Danke für die Antwort. Werde es Morgen probieren. Gruß Holger Thomas Mack schrieb: > Das Paket yast2-config-runlevel von 8.1 erzeugt diesen Fehler (wenn ich > mich recht erinnere). > > Du solltest alle yast2 Pakete auf Deinem Installationsmedium auf den > neuesten Stand bringen, dann sollte das Problem behoben sein. > > Thomas Mack > TU Braunschweig, Abt. Informationssysteme

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Runlevel Problem
by Alexander.Gehrig＠RSD.rohde-schwarz.com 19 Mar '03

19 Mar '03

Hi I install SuSE 8.1 with Autoyast2 but i allways have the following: The System starts in Runlevel 3 instead of Runlevel 5. What can i do to solve this Problem? Thx! Alex Controlfile 1: ..... <runlevels> <services config:type="list"> <service> <service_name>xntpd</service_name> <service_status>enable</service_status> </service> </services> </runlevels> ..... Controllfile 2: ..... <runlevels> <default>5</default> <services config:type="list"> <service> <service_name>xntpd</service_name> <service_start>5</service_start> <service_stop>5</service_stop> </service> <service> <service_name>sshd</service_name> <service_status>disable</service_status> </service> </services> </runlevels> .....

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Issues with SLES8 and bootloader
by Andreas Rother 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hello Anas, I have a strange lockup of Yast2 while writing the bootloader. It freezes everytime at 64%. We use FSC P250 with Mylex-Raid-Controller and SLES8 here. Two disks are mirrored for the root disk (/dev/rd/c0d0). The System is booted via PXE (works fine). As you can see in the attachment, we use three primary partitions /, swap and the remaining space is for LVM. The installation of the packages works fine but after that, YaST wants to finish the installation and the screen freezes while installing the bootmanager. However, the virtual consoles are still accessible, so I copied some log to another host. After doing "chroot /mnt" and "lilo -v" successfully, I rebooted the system. It booted and continued with the Post-Install steps as if nothing happened. Besides, how can I choose which bootloader should be installed? lilo.conf looks fine: boot = /dev/rd/c0d0 change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wb:kw:Wb:Wb linear prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux root = /dev/rd/c0d0p1 initrd = /boot/initrd append = " netdevice=eth0" image = /boot/vmlinuz.shipped label = failsafe root = /dev/rd/c0d0p1 initrd = /boot/initrd.shipped append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3 netdevice=eth0" optional last lines of y2log: 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Storage.ycp(GetSubDevFilterList):1801 GetSubDevFilterList partitions [$["device":"/dev/rd/c0d0p3", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":142, "fstype":"Linux LVM", "lvm_group":"vg_system", "mount":"", "nr":3, "region":[654, 1550], "size_byte":12748390400, "size_str":" 11.8 GB", "type":`primary, "used_fs":`unknown], $["device":"/dev/rd/c0d0p2", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":130, "mount":"swap", "nr":2, "region":[523, 131], "size_byte":1077444608, "size_str":" 1.0 GB", "type":`primary], $["detected_fs":`reiser, "device":"/dev/rd/c0d0p1", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":131, "mount":"/", "nr":1, "region":[0, 523], "size_byte":4301553664, "size_str":" 4.0 GB", "type":`primary, "used_fs":`reiser, "uuid":"98bbe1a6-d8bd-4aa1-b8b3-bd83dd08d385"], $["crypt_fs":false, "crypt_key":"", "detected_fs":`reiser, "device":"/dev/vg_system/lv_usr", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":142, "fstype":"LV", "mount":"/usr", "nr":"lv_usr", "region":[0, 1024], "size_bytes":4294967296, "type":`lvm, "use_module":"lvm_l l", "used_fs":`reiser, "uuid":"22955926-1914-464d-a3a6-012c6e830ba0"], $["crypt_fs":false, "crypt_key":"", "detected_fs":`reiser, "device":"/dev/vg_system/lv_home", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":142, "fstype":"LV", "mount":"/home", "nr":"lv_home", "region":[0, 512], "size_bytes":2147483648, "type":`lvm, "use_module":"lvm_ll", "used_fs":`reiser, "uuid":"a4823726-4747-4ba4-835e-d7a9d5f77a93"], $["crypt_fs":false, "crypt_key":"", "detected_fs":`reiser, "device":"/dev/vg_system/lv_tmp", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":142, "fstype":"LV", "mount":"/tmp", "nr":"lv_tmp", "region":[0, 256], "size_bytes":1073741824, "type":`lvm, "use_module":"lvm_ll", "used_fs":`reiser, "uuid":"623761be-f3f7-4d94-a5dc-0fbdd02d02b8"], $["crypt_fs":false, "crypt_key":"", "detected_fs":`reiser, "device":"/dev/vg_system/lv_var", "fs_options":$[], "fsid":142, "fstype":"LV", "mount":"/var", "nr":"lv_var", "region":[0, 256], "size_bytes":1073741824, "type":`lvm, "use_module":"lvm_ll", "used_fs":`reiser, "uuid":"c88f4b89-2fbf-4fd5-ac5c-8cbe7b91602f"]] 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Storage.ycp(FilterDelete):1501 FilterDelete called. Please use this define only for output. Dont't put back the return value to Storage 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Storage.ycp(Storage::CheckForLvmRootFs):841 CheckForLvmRootFs ret=false 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Boot.ycp(Boot::Save):602 Modules for the initrd: ["DAC960", "sym53c8xx", "reiserfs"] 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Boot.ycp(Boot::Save):606 Entries in /etc/sysconfig/kernel: DAC960 sym53c8xx reiserfs 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Boot.ycp(Boot::Save):618 Bootloader type is: lilo 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Misc.ycp(Misc::WriteYaSTInf):170 WriteYaSTInf($["Language":"de_DE", "RebootMsg":"0", "Root":"reboot"]) = Language: de_DE RebootMsg: 0 Root: reboot 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/Boot.ycp(Boot::Write):668 LoaderType lilo 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <2> linux(431) [libycp] YCPInteger.cc(YCPIntegerRep):53 Cannot convert to an integer 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/BootLILO.ycp(BootLILO::Write):457 lilo: mbr cmd: /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/dolilo / -m /dev/rd/c0d0 -a /dev/rd/c0d0p1 2003-03-11 15:21:25 <1> linux(431) [YCP] modules/BootLILO.ycp(BootLILO::Write):521 doenv: $["append":" netdevice=eth0", "bootdev":"/dev/rd/c0d0p1", "lba32":"", "linear":"yes", "rootdev":"/dev/rd/c0d0p1"] Mit freundlichem Gru?, Andreas Rother UNIX-Systemadministration -- Andreas Rother - E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co. KG Division Operations - System & Application Management - Systems Operation & Services - Open Systems

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Partitioning plan and <use> values
by Claude ARNOLD 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hello, About <use>: I move it from the bottom of the <partitioning> tag just before the <partitions> tag. Now I have no more error message with the extended partition but autoyast install the packages without partitioning. That's why I send a message with the subject "partitioning plan". If someone can help me ? Claude Arnold Laboratoire Emile Picard - UFR MIG Universite Paul Sabatier - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE tel: +33 (0)5.61.55.62.26 Fax: +33 (0)5.61.55.82.00

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partitioning plan
by Claude ARNOLD 11 Mar '03

11 Mar '03

Hello, Autoyast install the packages but without partitioning and I don't find what is wrong with the plan. On the client side are two partitions: /dev/hda1 and /dev/hda2. Can some one help me ? Its the only problem I have with autoyast (at least now). Below the partitioning plan (I remove the name space for legibility): <drive> <device>/dev/hda</device> <initialize >true</initialize> <use>1,2,3</use> <partitions> <partition> <crypt_fs>false</crypt_fs> <filesystem >reiser</filesystem> <format >true</format> <mount>/</mount> <partition_id >131</partition_id> <size>3gb</size> <type>Linux native</type> </partition> <partition> <crypt_fs>false</crypt_fs> <filesystem >reiser</filesystem> <format >true</format> <mount>/boot</mount> <partition_id>131</partition_id> <size>400mb</size> <type>Linux native</type> </partition> <partition> <crypt_fs >false</crypt_fs> <filesystem >swap</filesystem> <format >true</format> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_id >130</partition_id> <size>128mb</size> <type>Linux swap</type> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> Thanks a lot, Claude Arnold Laboratoire Emile Picard - UFR MIG Universite Paul Sabatier - 118, route de Narbonne 31062 TOULOUSE tel: +33 (0)5.61.55.62.26 Fax: +33 (0)5.61.55.82.00

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