Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (192 mails)

["Schumacher, Gordon" <gordon_schumacher@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Take a look at "isolinux.cfg" on the standard SuSE CD (or DVD) 1.  That
should show you how it needs to look.

-----Original Message-----
From: Suffin, Charles [mailto:Charles.Suffin@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:22 PM
To: suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] chroot-scripts not running


Actually, I solved the problem by removing the isolinux timeout so that
nothing proceeds beyond the "boot:" prompt until someone manually types a
valid install target (or just <enter> to get the default).  So, if someone
leaves the CD in the drive and goes out for lunch, the machine will just be
sitting at the prompt when they return.  They can just pop out the CD and
ctl-alt-del...

I like your suggestion Fraser, although I don't quite understand how to
specify boot from disk in isolinux.cfg -- the targets that you specify seem
to be from the boot medium, in this case the CD.

Anyway, thanks!


-----Original Message-----
From: Campbell, Fraser [mailto:Fraser.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 9:17 PM
To: suse-autoinstall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [suse-autoinstall] chroot-scripts not running

Charles Suffin wrote: 

> The only problem is that if a target PC has the CD drive above the hard
disk
> (in BIOS boot list), you can get into an infinite loop of reinstalling the
> machine on each reboot.  Even when I added an "eject" command into my
chroot
> or pre-install script, these darn drives pull the CD back into the machine
> when it resets/reboots!

Have the default isolinux option be "boot from harddisk" that way unless
someone is there to manually select the desired install method no reinstall
can happen ... this is what we do and I agree CD is infinitely less hassle
than PXE.  Boot from harddisk is the default option on standard SuSE CDs (at
least for Enterprise server) so you should be good just copying that config
onto your customized install CDs.

Fraser

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