Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (36 mails)

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Using a linux kernel and initrd from CD1/arch/x86_64/loader seems to be
working well.

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:44:25 -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote:

> 
> When I try to autoyast a system with openSUSE 10.3 from an openSUSE 10.2
> install server, using an old kernel that was for openSUSE 10.2, it's not
> automatic. Instead, I get a menu system, and the menu system doesn't
> install - it just says "Loading installation system" and then goes right
> back to the earlier menu.
> 
> If I alt-F3, I see:
> Loading image
> "ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1//boot/x86_64/root"...
> /download/image0: unknown fs type
> mount: /download/image0: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> So looking at the 10.2 install server, and comparing the
> CD1/boot/x86_64/root files for 10.2 and 10.3, I see the following
> difference:
> 
> # file ~ftp/ftp10-2/ftp10-2/CD1/boot/x86_64/root
> /srv/ftp/ftp10-2/ftp10-2/CD1/boot/x86_64/root: Linux Compressed ROM File System data, little endian size 74162176 version #2 sorted_dirs CRC 0xaeeee8a4, edition 0, 44848 blocks, 7088 files
> suse-boot-install-root:/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64 x86_64-suse-linux 30908 - above cmd done 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:12 PM
> 
> # file ~ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64/root
> /srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64/root: Squashfs filesystem, little endian, version 3.0, 0 bytes, 7942 inodes, blocksize: 65536 bytes, created: Wed Sep 26 13:20:07 2007
> suse-boot-install-root:/srv/ftp/ftp10-2/openSUSE-10.3-community-edition/CD1/boot/x86_64 x86_64-suse-linux 30908 - above cmd done 2007 Fri Oct 05 05:13 PM
> 
> 
> It appears that the "root" filesystem format has changed in 10.3, and the
> install environment of 10.2 doesn't support that new fiklesystem format.
> 
> If I set up a system with squashfs, can I just convert root to ext2 or
> somethiung to get this 10.2 install server and kernel to install 10.3
> systems - and if that works, will there likely be other issues waiting to
> be discovered? Or do we need to upgrade our install server?
> 
> Or could I just upgrade the kernel that's used for the install to
> something from 10.3, including a squashfs?  I tried building my own
> kernel with squashfs in it, but that's giving me "invalid module format"
> on some insmod's.
> 
> Thanks!


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