Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (46 mails)

[Dan Stromberg <dstromberglists@xxxxxxxxx>]

Dan Stromberg wrote:
> Dan Stromberg wrote:
> > Hi folks.
> >
> > I'm having some trouble with a SLES 10.1 install, but we'll be doing
> > the same thing with openSUSE 10.3 shortly.
> >
> > Basically, we're adding a bunch of RPM's via a post install script,
> > and some of those RPM's are miffed that the kernel we're installing
> > with isn't the same as the kernel that we end up with after the
> > install.
> >
> > So we're wanting to change our installs to use the same kernel, to see
> > if we can get those RPM's added via the same mechanism we're using for
> > most of our RPM's (in a post install chroot script), rather than
> > needing to add them via an rc script.
> >
> > However, when I changed the kernel and initrd for the installer to be
> > the as what we're installing, the installer no longer appears to be
> > running.  Instead, we get a grub menu via PXE like usual, but the
> > installer just boots to the previous-installed OS on disk.
> >
> > We were using a kernel and initrd from off the CD image, and that was
> > working fine.  All I changed was the kernel and initrd.
> >
> > Is there some kernel command line option I need to add for a more
> > generic kernel, to make it usable for during an install?
> >
> > Thanks!
> >   
> BTW, our pxelinux.cfg has, for example:
>
> label SLES-2900
>  kernel vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
>  append initrd=initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-smp 
> install=ftp://10.3.163.253/ftp10-2/sles10-sp1/CD1/ splash=silent 
> showopts console=tty0 
> autoyast=ftp://10.3.163.253/ftp10-2/SLES-10.1-Dell-2900-autoyast.xml
>
> Is there something missing to make a general purpose kernel usable for 
> installs?
I opened up and compared some initrd's, and found that the one for 
installing is pretty different, which is probably why a generic initrd 
is giving a generic boot, not an install.

I think we're probably going to just want to install some of our rpm's 
from an rc script.

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