Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (99 mails)

[Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint@xxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Werner Hack wrote:

> I want to install a system with SuSE 10.1 via autoyast.
> The machine has two scsi controllers with harddisks attached
> to each of them.
> And there's the problem. During the booting procedure (from network)
> SuSE initializes a hardware detection and loads kernelmodules for the
> scsi controllers. But this happens in the wrong order and this results
> in that the scsi devices are recognized in the wrong order and
> autoyast fails respectively choses the wrong harddisk.
> The hardware detection happens before the autoyast configfile is read

That's correct, but...

> and also adding an insmod command in the pxe-config has no effect.
> How can I determine and force SuSE to load kernelmodules in a specific
> order to get my scsi devices recognized correctly?
> The only workarround for the moment that helps is to detach the external
> disks. But thats no solution. If someone forgets to do this, the external
> data disk will get formated as a new system disk...

starting with sles10, 'insmod=' options passed at the kernel command line
are evaluated _before_ hardware detection.

Didn't make it into 10.1, sorry.


Steffen
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