Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (33 mails)

["Hans-Joachim Ehlers" <HansJoachim.Ehlers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just some suggestions

1 )Are you booting for Autoyast installations from the network ? If yes is the 
boot image ( kernel & initrd ) at the same level as the DVD ?
2) Does the same kernel type ( smp or defaults ) gets  installed via autoyast 
or the manuel installation. Saying this its a good idea to check the difference 
between a manual installation and  a autoyast installation in respect to kernel 
type and kernel ( initrd) setting in /etc/sysconfig/kernel and loaded modules ( 
lsmod )

3) I our environment i had problems with certain types of  Dell hardware on 
OpenSuse 10.3 thus i had to configure them after the installation.
Example:
...
# Tune system before first reboot - must run in chroot environment
....
echo "INFO: rebuild initrd for EVO , DELL GX2[0-9]0 and Precsion WS boards"
hwinfo --bios | egrep  -iw "evo|gx2[0-9]0|WS.*360" | grep -iq "Product"
if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
        # Load drivers to access the disk
        . /etc/sysconfig/kernel
        INITRD_MODULES="piix ide-generic ide-core ide-disk "$INITRD_MODULES
        perl -p -i -e "s/INITRD_MODULES=.*/INITRD_MODULES=\"$INITRD_MODULES\"/" 
 /etc/sysconfig/kernel
        mkinitrd
        perl -p -i -e "s/resume/ insmode=ide-generic resume/" 
/boot/grub/menu.lst
        # Enable 32 IDE mode after reboot
        echo "hdparm -c 1 /dev/hda" >> /etc/init.d/boot.local

3.1) Since i had also in the past problems with dual cores on Dells  i just 
disabled dual core usage as well as power management in the bios.

hth
Hajo


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Hans-Joachim Ehlers
UNIX Systems Engineer
EUMETSAT
Am Kavalleriesand, 31
64295, Darmstadt, Germany
Tel : +49 6151 807-7307
mailto:hansjoachim.ehlers@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
http://www.eumetsat.int

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