Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (101 mails)

[Martin Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Vogt wrote:
> Martin Vogt wrote:
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>> Hello autoyast list,
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>>
>> I'm currently testing an automated installation over pxe.
>> Currently I found two things, which do not seem to work:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157024
>> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157027
>>
>> Now I checked a machine with linuxbios on it, which only can use a serial line.
>>
>> This is the last entry after the .ebi is loaded:
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>> Loading 10.136.16.201:netinst/ebi/install-suse101b6-i386.ebi ...(ELF)... 
>> .........done
>>
>> Then nothing. 
>> cmdline:
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>> console=ttyS0,115200   Insmod=e1000,bcm5700,e100,aic7xxx_old  
>> install=http://10.136.16.223/itwm101/inst/CD1                                 
>> autoyast=tftp://10.136.16.221/netinst/suse/autoyast-suse101-lvm.xml";
>>
>> How do I find out if the kernel (The kernel from the installcds beta6)
>> and the initrd supports the serial console?
>> Is this tested?
>> Installation beta6 over serial line?
>>
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> Yes, serial line ist part of the kernel.
> Just copied linux,initrd into a working suse 10.1b6 removed vga=xxx and
> added console=ttyS0,115200.
>
> Yast starts over serial line. which is fine.
> Problem remaining: why does it not work with linuxbios....
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> Martin
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OK,

serial line in LinuxBios works too, but not with the mknbi package.
mkelfImage works fine.

Btw:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=157024

was recently fixed, many thanks.
Only the vga problem remains.

Martin