Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (33 mails)

[Bernd Nies <listuser@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Hans-Joachim,

> 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 ?

I'm booting from the same DVD for manual or autoyast installation and 
the install repository was also created from this 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 )

On the 64bit installation it's the same kernel:

Linux adnws005 2.6.25.5-1.1-default #1 SMP 2008-06-07 01:55:22 +0200 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Entries in /etc/sysconfig/kernel are the same (except of the order):

Dell Precision 670:
INITRD_MODULES="ata_piix processor thermal fan jbd ext3 edd" (autoyast)
INITRD_MODULES="processor thermal ata_piix fan jbd ext3 edd" (manual)

Vmware:
INITRD_MODULES="mptspi ata_piix processor thermal fan jbd ext3 edd" 
(autoyast)
INITRD_MODULES="processor thermal mptspi ata_piix fan jbd ext3 edd" (manual)

When I change the order and run mkinitrd, then D-Bus still segfaults at 
next boot.

> 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.

Same happens also when I install opensuse 11.0 in VMware machines. On 
the Autoyast installed system D-Bus segfaults at startup, on the manual 
installed system it doesn't. Probably this isn't related to hardware.


Bye
Bernd


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