automated setup with own kernelimage
Hi all, i need to create an automated setup with autoyast for suse 9.3 prof. systems with an non-default kernel. That means I have to build my own kernel (due to hardware needs), boot this by pxe boot and install this new kernel in phase 1 of autoyast setup instead of any kernel-package distributed with suse 9.3. What's happen until now ?? - I have the needed kernel - the PXE-boot start's successfull - autoyast start's successfull and the installation starts What's not working ?? - I can't setup my own kernel-image in phase I of autoyast setup - I added in my xml file: <kernel>kernel-ownkernel</kernel> (the needed rpm is copied in the repository and the index is new builded, but I dont see this kernel image if I search in yast by an other system, that usysy the same repository ...) Can anyone help me or has a cooking-procedure for doing this ?? thx & rgds Achim
Achim Schmidt wrote
- I added in my xml file: <kernel>kernel-ownkernel</kernel> (the needed rpm is copied in the repository and the index is new builded, but I dont see this kernel image if I search in yast by an other system, that usysy the same repository ...)
You should find the kernel rpm in the "packages" file in setup/descr/, otherwise sth. went wrong with create_package_descr. My call after copying the kernel package is /usr/bin/create_package_descr -l english -l german -x /rpm/SuSE/suse/setup/descr/EXTRA_PROV/ However, you will run into problems when trying self compiled kernels as install kernels in SuSE 10.1/SLES10, because even when exchanging all the modules in the initrd of the install system with the ones from your ownkernel package, a lot of hardware autodetection fails. So you might consider switching this mechanism as soon as possible. Preloading modules or using the driverupdate files might be enough... cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *
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