Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (59 mails)

[Björn Lotz <blotz@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Am Donnerstag 24 Januar 2008 schrieb Wayman Smith:
> Hello,
>
> I am implementing a PXE installation with autoyast, and it has been
> working well. However, the system continues to boot from PXE and the
> installation repeats itself over and over. I will not have access to the
> machines to disable PXE in the bios.
>
> I have look at the autoyast documentation and Section 7.2.3 recommends a
> solution of adding an entry to autoyast.xml profile. I have tried this
> option, however I still receive the same result. This is what I have
> added to my autoinst.xml

As the PXE boot happens before all that, I don't think that works. 

If you start the install manually by selecting from a PXE menu, then 
default harddisk
in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/hexmacaddress helps:

default harddisk

# SLES10SP1
label SLES10SP1
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 insmod=e100 netdevice=eth0 
autoyast= ...

# OES - wie SLES10SP1, nur anderer AutoYaST-File
label OES2
  kernel linux
  append initrd=initrd ramdisk_size=65536 insmod=e100 netdevice=eth0 
autoyast= ...
...

Combined with a message file you have to choose an installation when the 
machine boots; if you don't make a choice the machine boots from harddisk.


If you start the install remotely and do not sit in front of the machine to 
start it, I don't think there is a choice but to remove the hexadecimal file 
specific for that machine before it reboots as part of the installation.

The machine-specific one would not have "default harddisk", but default 0, for 
example, and if you remove that file, the file named default is used, which 
has the "default harddisk" line in it.

The trick is to remove the file in the right moment. But if you trigger things 
remotely with WoL, for instance, you could have some script that sends the 
WoL package and then deletes the corresponding file after 5 minutes. 

You would have to remove the file in any event, because when the user starts 
his machine, the installation would start all over as well.

Björn

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