rules

18 Jun 2004

      Hi,

I try to install a server machine with autoyast booting from a selfmade CD.
A copy of the SuSE distribution is located on a local disk. There are
several disks attached to this system.
To determine the right harddisk where I intend to install the OS
I want to use 'rules.xml'.

These are my boot parameters for autoyast :
...
autoyast=device://sdb1/install/autoyast/profiles/
serverdir=device://sdb1/install/autoyast/SuSE partition=sdb1
If no profile is specified, autoyast should go for the rules file.
But when the system comes up autoyast stops :

'No profile for this machine could be found or retrieved'

... and autoyast shows the given profile location in its installation window
for choosing an new one.

This is my rules file located in .../profiles/rules :
...
<rules config:type="list">
    <rule>
       <disksize>           
            <match>/dev/sda 100000</match>
            <match_type>greater</match_type>
       </disksize>
       <result>
            <profile>server.xml</profile>
            <continue config:type="boolean">false</continue>
        </result>
    </rule>
  </rules>
While booting all disks are detected (and modules are loaded) the right way.
Any idea what went wrong ?

Thanks in advance
Regards

Werner Hack

BTW:  What's the right syntax for the MAC attribute in rules.xml ?

      <mac>
            <match>123456ABCDEF</match>
            <match_type>exact</match_type>
      </mac>

      Is this correct ?
      Has the module for the network device to be loaded to detect the MAC address ?