Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (70 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Friday 08 December 2006 18:33, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

> 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?)

actually there is. How do you provide the nameserver information? DHCP or 
nameserver=.... parameter?

> 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. 

it is.

> 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

you have an (old?) RAID over the whole sda disk. That confuses the storage 
part of the installation.
Remove the old RAID by hand via:
dmraid -E -r /dev/sda

then it should work

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ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
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