Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (101 mails)

[Martin Vogt <vogt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Vogt wrote:
> Hello autoyast list,
>
>
> 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:
>
> Loading 10.136.16.201:netinst/ebi/install-suse101b6-i386.ebi ...(ELF)... 
> .........done
>
> Then nothing. 
> cmdline:
>
>
> 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?
>
>   

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....

Martin