Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (87 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 4 Feb 2007, Frank Steiner wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> with SLES 9, modules loaded with "insmod bla" in the info file, made
> it to the INITRD_MODULES line in /etc/sysconfig/kernel automatically.
> This was neat for e.g. fixing the order of scsi controllers or which
> network card to initialize as eth0 etc.
> 
> It was also nice that only those modules for existing cards/controllers
> were added to INITRD_MODULES. So you could specify e.g. 5 different
> network modules to load but on every host only those came into INITRD_MODULES
> that matched a card on that host.
> 
> In SLES 10 this feature is gone! None of the insmod-modules is listed
> in INITRD_MODULES anymore, just stuff that yast considered useful. As
> a consequence, e.g. the order of scsi controllers often differs from the
> order used during the installation, the same for network cards (and
> that idiotic udev "persistent nework device names" feature isn't able
> to recognize which card I used as eth0 during installation).
> 
> Was that feature dropped or is it a bug? If it was dropped, how can I
> transfer the order of loading modules that I use during installation
> into the installed system?

That's more or less as intended.

If the autoyast framework gives you no means to do it, a driver update
(ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/hvogel/Update-Media-HOWTO/) gives you the
chance to intercept the install process and change the INITRD_MODULES line.


Steffen
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