Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (36 mails)

[Rainer Krienke <krienke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,

I haveen using autoyast quite a while with 10.1 as well as 10.2.  Now I tried to use the same 
autoinstall.xml file I successfully used for 10.2 for 10.3. However this fails in very early state. 

I install the maschine using  SLP (just as I did for 10.2)  by which it gets its network installation 
repository. The SLP parameters are like this:

service:install.suse:http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3  autoyast=http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml ;

When I leave the autoyast part from this commandline everything works and after a while I see 
the yast interface. If I start the machine using the autoyast parameter from above, the system, 
starts loading the installation system but halts and says 

Loading Installation system (1kB) 100%

No typo here. It really says the system is loaded 100% and is 1 kB in size. The installation system 
the says that it could not find the openSUSE Repository which works fine if I do not specify the 
autoyast-Parameter when booting.  

On console I can see a possible error butI do not know what it really means. Because this log is 
only written to the screen this  exerpt here has been copied manually (it might contain a typo :-)) ):

slp: using http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3  autoyast=http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml ;
...
loading http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3  autoyast=http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/content -> /content
sha1 ....
sha1 not checked
loading http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3  autoyast=http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/content.asc -> /content.asc
sha1 ....
sha1 not checked
signature ok
loading http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3  autoyast=http://installsrv.uni-koblenz.de/linux/suse10.3/autoinstall.xml/boot/i386/root -> /download/file_000
sha1 ....
sha1 check failed
/download/file_000: unknown fs type
instsys mount failed: boot/i386/root
disk: mount ok but test failed
....

What I identify as an error is in the last lines beginning with the failed sha1 check. 
I tried to loop mount this root-image manually  on a 10.2 system and this does not work since it is a squash fs. The 
correspondig root image from 10.2 is a regular image. When I try to mount the 10.3 root image I get:

bliss:/import/sw/linux/suse10.3/boot/i386 # mount -o loop root /mnt
mount: you must specify the filesystem type
bliss:/import/sw/linux/suse10.3/boot/i386 # file root
root: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.0, 0 bytes, 7943 inodes, blocksize: 65536 bytes, created: Wed Sep 26 22:22:45 2007

So I guess this is the error. But how can I work around this problem? Why does it work if i do not specify 
the autoyast parameter at all? Do I have to change my autoinstall.xml file and if how?

Thanks for any help
Rainer
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