On 12/8/06, Uwe Gansert
On Friday 08 December 2006 00:18, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
Sadly, there are more problems. After fixing my autoyast.xml file, now the installation bombs out much earlier (which admittedly suggests that I did something wrong). Now I just got prompted to "Make sure that CD number 1i s in your drive".
okay but then autoyast did not even start. The installation fails before one line of autoyast code has been executed now.
I've got an info and autoyast.xml files inside the initrd.
did you change any ownerships in the initrd? It's important that it all still belongs to root.
It does all belong to root.
server where the SuSE-10.2 installation tree is located. I added autoyast=http:/server/path/to/autoyast.xml to the append line on my pxeboot server, and now I get a completely different failure. The installer attempts to get a dhcp lease, and fails nearly
that's strange but of course not an autoyast failure.
Turns out it wasn't failing to get a DHCP lease, it got one just fine. The error message was misleading and/or useless. The problem was that there's apparently no DNS resolution at this stage of the installation (or any?), and I was specifying the hostname of the server that hosted autoyast.xml & the install tree. So when the installer couldn't resolve the name of the server to an IP, it just bombed out with that cryptic error message. I should note that the autoyast FAQ refers to autoyast=http://myserver/myconfig.xml which leads one to believe that not using the IP address of the server in the URL is acceptable. Once I changed it to the IP, the installation proceeded much further. Now it gets all the way through installing all the packages (once I updated all the pattern names *sigh*), and then fails at 'Install boot manager' with the error: /sbin/mkinitrd: line 3036: /etc/fstab: No such file or directory No '/' mountpoint specififed in /etc/fstab I've attached the autoyast.xml that I'm using. I've uploaded the y2log here: http://netllama.linux-sxs.org/y2log.bz2 thanks. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ L. Friedman netllama@gmail.com LlamaLand http://netllama.linux-sxs.org