Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (89 mails)

["Dennis Peere" <sycrontw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I'm trying to perform an automated harddisk installation of NLD 9 but seem 
to have problems loading initrd with loadlin 1.6C.
The original initrd deliverd on CD1 of NLD is 5706806 bytes and I think 
that's too big for loadlin 1.6C.
When I boot in FREEDOS and start loadlin I use the following command
LOADLIN LINUX initrd=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536 root=/dev/ram0 init=/linuxrc

It ends with the following error message :
RAMDISk: Compressed image found at block 0
Invalid compressed format (err=2)
VFS: Mounted root (minix filesystem) readonly
Freeing unused kernel memory: 212K freed

I've tried the following commands, without success, to start loadlin :
  LOADLIN LINUX INITRD=INITRD ramdisk_size=65536
  LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc
  LOADLIN linux initrd=initrd init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0

I've used the same loadlin version to install RedHat 8.0 and RHES 4 without 
any problems.
Although I must say that the initrd.img's were smaller on RH (2711963 bytes 
for RH8 and 3092868  bytes for RHES4)

If I boot from CD1 and start the installation, the following modules are 
loaded during installation :
Module                  Size  Used by
reiserfs              241488  1
edd                     9368  0
dm_snapshot            16796  0
dm_mod                 50300  1 dm_snapshot
multipath               7688  0
raid6                  98576  0
raid5                  20736  0
xor                    15240  2 raid6,raid5
raid1                  14848  0
raid0                   8192  0
parport_pc             35520  0
parport                37832  1 parport_pc
usb_storage            60096  0
uhci_hcd               29200  0
hid                    40896  0
ehci_hcd               27908  0
usbcore               103644  6 usb_storage,uhci_hcd,hid,ehci_hcd
ide_cd                 36740  0
sg                     35616  0
sr_mod                 16292  0
sd_mod                 20224  0
scsi_mod              108876  4 usb_storage,sg,sr_mod,sd_mod
cdrom                  36892  2 ide_cd,sr_mod
cramfs                 42868  1
vfat                   14208  2
fat                    43584  1 vfat
af_packet              20872  0
nvram                   8456  0

I've tried to mount the initrd (from the NLD cd's) and removed all modules 
that weren't loaded during the cd installation.
The result was an initrd of 2056532 bytes
When I started loadlin with that initrd I got the following error mesages  
with every module the kernel want to load :
… on VT3
insmod: error inserting '/modules/reiserfs.ko': -1 Invalid module format
insmod: error inserting '/modules/eepro100.ko': -1 Invalid module format
…

… on VT4
ehci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
uhci_hcd: disagrees about version of symbol struct_module
…

After giving up on trying to find out what modules I needed to put in the 
initrd I started looking for an alternative program for loadlin that can 
mount the original initrd and found
Tiny.exe => http://sourceforge.net/projects/gujin/
Used that with the following command : tiny.exe linux initrd  root=/dev/ram0 
ramdisk_size=65536 init=/linuxrc
Error message : Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to 
kernel.

linld.com  => http://195.66.192.168/linux/linld/
Used that with the followinc command : linld.com image=linux initrd=initrd 
cl=nld.par
nld.par includes :  ramdisk_size=65536 install=hd://suse/nld/cd1 
autoyast=file:///mounts/extra/autoinst.xml
Error message : -1 Invalid module format for every module it wants to load.

Hope someone can help me out :-(

Regards,

Dennis Peere

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