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[opensuse-autoinstall] SLES 12 SP1 + PXE + new kernel module
by Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, we have to add a kernel module for a perc controller. We unpacked the initrd an placed it under lib/modules/3.12.49-11-default/updates/ but the boot process failed with "No filesystem ..." How can we add the raidcontroller module correctly ? -- Bye, Peer ________________________________________________________ Max-Planck-Institut für Biogeochemie Dr. Peer-Joachim Koch Hans-Knöll Str.10 Telefon: ++49 3641 57-6705 D-07745 Jena Telefax: ++49 3641 57-7705

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Strange behaviour with confirm=false
by Laurent CABANAS 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

Hello I've been using autoyast since openSUSE 10.2 and it's a great tool. Thanks to every single developer who contributed to it. While re-testing all the custom control files we use at the lab with Leap 42.3 release I have noticed a strange behaviour with the option 'confirm' that controls unattended installation. Here's my scenario : GPT partition table with bios boot (not efi), custom partitioning but nothing silly, then various options. Whatever I add to the control file the installation process works flawlessly until I finish testing it. Then I turn it to unattended with the following directive : <confirm config:type="boolean"> false </confirm> The installation with full control file goes well but the system won't reboot (no valid boot device). After a bit of search I noticed that it is related to the pmbr_boot flag on the disk not being set. Adding it manually with parted solves the problem so as a workaround I added a very simple chroot-script to make it. Since I thought I had probably messed up something I did a lot of testing to reproduce it (even with minimal control file) and figured that the confirm option is the issue. I can't figure how it would affect the bootlader part of the process after package installation but it does. Anyone have any idea or should I simply fill a bug report ? Thanks in advance Regards L. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] specify autoinst.xml by autoyast2 statement
by Daniel Spannbauer 01 Feb '18

01 Feb '18

Hello, I try to set the path to the autoyast profile via the autoyast2 statement. According to the linxrc documentation and the autoyast documentation the following string should work (I think): autoyast2=disk:/?device=*label/system_14_*/autoinst_new.xml But Autoyast can't find the xml. Any hints? Regards Daniel Spannbauer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] How to get the path of the installation source
by Daniel Spannbauer 23 Jan '18

23 Jan '18

Hello, I have a working autoyast installation which can be used from either a usb stick, dvd or via NFS (when booting via pxe). I have to copy the files of the installation source to the harddisk. But what is the best way to do this? A post install script? How to find out where the files are located? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] sle-sdk product no longer marked as installed in SP2/SP3
by Andrew Daugherity 24 Oct '17

24 Oct '17

I recently noticed that an autoyast installation of SLES 12 SP3 did not show the the SDK as being installed (in the output of ‘zypper search -t product’), despite it being present in my profile, and 'SUSEConnect --list-extensions' reported it as registered but not installed. Running ‘zypper install sle-sdk-release’ or ‘zypper in -t product sle-sdk’ afterwards will then mark it as installed. Further testing revealed this to be the case in SP2 also, but for SLES 12 SP1, the sle-sdk product *is* still automatically installed. I have had the mounted SLE SDK ISO listed as an add-on in my profile for many versions (going back to SLES 11 GA, I believe) much like this: ==== <add-on>  <add_on_products config:type="list"> <listentry> <media_url>http://rgs-install.local/mounts/sles12/sp2/sdk1/</media_url> <product>sle-sdk</product> <product_dir>/</product_dir> <alias>SLE-SDK12-SP2</alias> </listentry> </add_on_products> </add-on> ==== And up through SLES 12 SP1, everything was fine. For all SP versions, I see in the YaST logs stuff like this: 2017-10-24 15:42:44 <1> dhcp-116(3246) [zypp++] PoolItem.cc(setBuddy):168 U__s_(9458)product:sle-sdk-12.2-0.x86_64(SLE-SDK12-SP2) has buddy U__s_(7684)sle-sdk-release-12.2-1.124.x86_64(SLE-SDK12-SP2) ...but for some reason SP2/SP3 don’t automatically install sle-sdk-release any more. Adding it to <packages>, either 'sle-sdk-release', or 'product:sle-sdk', is a suitable workaround, but I wonder what changed? ==== <software> <packages config:type="list"> <package>mlocate</package>   <package>product:sle-sdk</package> <package>sle-sdk-release</package> </packages> <patterns config:type="list"> <pattern>Minimal</pattern> <pattern>base</pattern> </patterns>  </software> ==== Andrew Daugherity Senior Systems Administrator Division of Research, Texas A&M University

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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] How to invoke autoyast from USB and DVD with one grub entry
by Daniel Spannbauer 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

Am 10/05/2017 um 09:55 AM schrieb Daniel Spannbauer: > Hello, > > > after solving my efi-case I struggle with another problem..... > > I create an Iso-Image for our stuff which they can download and install > opensuse to their machines. > > They can burn the ISO on a DVD or create a usb-stick from that iso. > > Booting is working from both. But I have only one grub.cfg. So, how to > tell the opensuse installation system the correct path to the repo and > the autoinst-xml-file? > > At the moment I try it with: > > install=disk:/?device=*label/inst_14_* > autoyast2=disk:/?device=*label/inst_14_*/autoinst.xml > > The ISO and the USB stick are labled with "inst_14_??" where ?? is a > version number. > > But the installation process can't find the installation source, doesn't > matter If I boot from USB oder DVD. Is there no parameter to set the location of the autoinst-file for bot, DVD and USB? file:///autionst.xml is only working on DVD, not on a pen drive, device:/// is only working on a pen drive but not on a DVD... Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] Create an UEFI-Bootable ISO-Image
by Daniel Spannbauer 20 Oct '17

20 Oct '17

> Hello Johannes, > > I've looked over the help of mksusecd. It seems to do automatically what > I did by my own script. > But: > - I have modified isolinux.cfg which special boot entrys for different > hardware. Same for the grub2. Are they overwritten when I use mksusecd? > - The content is signed with a gpg key which is protected by a > passphrase. With my script I use gpg via batchmode and it gets the > passphrase from a textfile. Does mksusecd support that scenario? > - mksusecd need root privilegs, my script runs as user. > > That are the stumbling blocks I figured out till now. > Who is the maintainer of that script? Looks great so far. > Ok, holidys are over...tried the mksusecd deeper.... When installing from the installation media created with mksusecd i get an error from Autoyast: "No base products found"...... Any idea what autoyast is missing here? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] How to invoke autoyast from USB and DVD with one grub entry
by Daniel Spannbauer 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hello, after solving my efi-case I struggle with another problem..... I create an Iso-Image for our stuff which they can download and install opensuse to their machines. They can burn the ISO on a DVD or create a usb-stick from that iso. Booting is working from both. But I have only one grub.cfg. So, how to tell the opensuse installation system the correct path to the repo and the autoinst-xml-file? At the moment I try it with: install=disk:/?device=*label/inst_14_* autoyast2=disk:/?device=*label/inst_14_*/autoinst.xml The ISO and the USB stick are labled with "inst_14_??" where ?? is a version number. But the installation process can't find the installation source, doesn't matter If I boot from USB oder DVD. Any hints? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Create an UEFI-Bootable ISO-Image
by Daniel Spannbauer 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

Hello, I try to create a UEFI-Bootable Iso-Image. The "normal" Iso is working fine, but on a UEFI-Only machine the burned DVD is not found. But how do I generate a UEFI Iso-Image on Leap? genisoimage seems to lack the parameter --eltorito-boot Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] /tmp as tmpfs?
by Daniel Spannbauer 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hello, I try to configure /tmp as tmpfs...is that possible via autoyast? Or do I have to call a script which adds the line into the fstab? Regards Daniel -- Daniel Spannbauer Systemadministration marco Systemanalyse und Entwicklung GmbH Tel +49 8333 9233-27 Fax -11 Rechbergstr. 4-6, D 87727 Babenhausen Mobil +49 171 4033220 http://www.marco.de/ Email ds(a)marco.de Geschäftsführer Martin Reuter HRB 171775 Amtsgericht München -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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