Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (50 mails)

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

OK, I've backed away from adding my kernel RPM's to the existing,
CD-image, at least for now, because it is probably gpg-signed in such a
way that would complicate this.

So instead, I restored my CD image to a pristine state, and created an
addon, which I set up as an installation source in yast.

However, autoyast is not installing my custom kernel.  :(

I've tried the following in my autoyast xml file:

  <software>
    <kernel>kernel</kernel>

  <software>
    <kernel>kernel-2.6.21.7DRSwashere</kernel>

The first did't try anything but kernel-default, while the second errored
out saying it couldn't find kernel-2.6.21.7DRSwashere and fell back on
kernel-default.

Is my approach reasonable?

What dod I need to put in that kernel tag to get my custom kernel pulled
in?

Thanks!


On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 18:34:12 +0100, Yan Fitterer wrote:

> Never tried this for the kernel, but it works for other packages:
> 
> 1) create a new install source
> 2) Add it to your list of sources
> 3) Specify the kernel as per your xml snippet below.
> 
> To help with 1) you may want to look at:
> 
> http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Creating_Add-On_Media_with_YaST ;
> 
> Yan
> 
>>>> On 14/09/2007 at 17:58, in message
> <33c5a6c30709140958k5217773bj73ebaab3643e3381@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Dan Stromberg"
> <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I have a Linus 2.6.21 kernel packaged up as an RPM, modified slightly
>> to do the grub changes.  It's based on a heavily modified
>> kernel-source*.rpm from openSUSE.
>> 
>> I'm now trying to get this kernel to be loaded automatically as part
>> of an autoyast install.
>> 
>> I dumped the kernel into our RPM repository, but the kernel is not
>> being loaded for some reason.  If I remove the kernel-default, I get a
>> kernelless install, so I'm pretty sure I've got the right directory of
>> RPM's.
>> 
>> When I look at suse/setup/descr/packages, I don't see my kernel
>> listed.  Do I need to run some command to get it added?  Does it need
>> to appear in this file?
>> 
>> I also tried to add the kernel to the XML controlling the install with:
>>   <software>
>>     <kernel>kernel-2.6.21.7DRSwashere</kernel>
>> 
>> ...however still no luck.  BTW, the actual kernel has "DRS-was-here",
>> not "DRSwashere" - in some contexts and not others the software seems
>> to want to strip the dashes.
>> 
>> What do I need to do to get this kernel loaded and made the default kernel?
>> 
>> Thanks!


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