Uwe Gansert wrote, On 01/12/2010 01:03 AM:
on Monday 11 January 2010 Stephen Dowdy wrote:
My understanding is that if i placed this rules file on the USB key's VFAT filesystem as '/cf/rules/rules.xml' and boot with:
linux autoyast=usb:///cf/ ZORKsite=site1 ZORKnode=ingest It does work, but i have to diddle it a bit. It initially fails with something like "Make sure install media is in Disk 1" (can't recall exactly.).
All i have to do is hit "[BACK]", then proceed through the selection for Language and Keyboard, then "Setup or Install System", then select "Hard Disk" and then the partition for the USB key, then it works fine.
okay, then the problem is different. linuxrc can not find the installation source on it's own for some reason. Does that dialog appear without autoyast=.... parameter too? Do you see any special error on any console? This is not very likely but do you have a parameter "manual=1" set? That would trigger the dialog too. The dialog you see raises before autoyast has started at all so it's hardly an autoyast issue.
But in your case linuxrc can not find the inst-source.
FWIW, Following up... Well, the only way i can get a USB key (made via mksusebootdisk) to boot and find the autoyast configs (which i store at /cf on the install media) properly is: linux install=hd://dev/sdc1/ autoyast=usb:///cf/ (using hd: install method with usb: autoyast method) That finds linuxrc right off (w/o having to back up through the menus to specify it). Using autoyast=file:///cf/ in this case doesn't work, you *have* to specify usb:///cf/ (i presume the USB method performs mounting functions that hd: method doesn't) However, other combos that didn't work: using 'install=usb:///' doesn't work, and linux instmode=usb autoyast=file:///cf/ yields: Could not find the SUSE linux Enterpise Server 10 Installation Source Activating manual setup program. going on that, and selecting menus to start system on sdc1 doesn't work as autoyast is NOT found linux install=hd:/sdc/ autoyast=file:///cf/ linux install=usb:/// autoyast=file:///cf/ dud url: disk:/?device=*usb* disk: trying to mount: /dev/sddc1 disk: /dev/sdc1: mount ok ... Automatic setup not possible linux install=device://sdc1/ autoyast=file:///cf/ no good (can't remember failure mode, just had it listed as not working) linux install=hd://dev/sdc1/ autoyast=hd://dev/sdc1/cf/ linuxrc loads properly, but AutoYaST can NOT be found --stephen -- Stephen Dowdy - Systems Administrator - NCAR/RAL 303.497.2869 - sdowdy@ucar.edu - http://www.ral.ucar.edu/~sdowdy/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org