Hello, we are installing SLES8 with SP3 through HTTP. Although we specified grub as the boot loader we still get lilo installed by default and have to replace it with grub in our post install script. <bootloader> <location>mbr</location> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <loader_device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</loader_device> <kernel_parameters>acpi=off 3</kernel_parameters> <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <module></module> </initrd_modules> </bootloader> Hardware are HP server with /, /boot and /var mounted on normal partitions (HW RAID 1) and /home, /tmp and /usr mounted to LVM volumes (same RAID 1). All file systems are XFS. Kernel and initrd in tftp directory are from SP3, we have the driverupdate file from SP3 CD1 linked to our SLES8 installation root (/autoyast/SLES8), in yast/order the paths to SP3 CD1 and CD2 are listed as the first entries. Regards, Oliver Schwabedissen -- DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Superg�nstig und stressfrei einsteigen! AKTION "Kein Einrichtungspreis" nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
Hi! Dne pátek 25 únor 2005 16:08 Oliver Schwabedissen napsal(a):
we are installing SLES8 with SP3 through HTTP. Although we specified grub as the boot loader we still get lilo installed by default and have to replace it with grub in our post install script.
<bootloader> <location>mbr</location> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <loader_device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</loader_device> <kernel_parameters>acpi=off 3</kernel_parameters> <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <module></module> </initrd_modules> </bootloader>
Hardware are HP server with /, /boot and /var mounted on normal partitions (HW RAID 1) and /home, /tmp and /usr mounted to LVM volumes (same RAID 1). All file systems are XFS.
Kernel and initrd in tftp directory are from SP3, we have the driverupdate file from SP3 CD1 linked to our SLES8 installation root (/autoyast/SLES8), in yast/order the paths to SP3 CD1 and CD2 are listed as the first entries.
IIRC in SLES8 the decission which bootloader will be instlaled isn't based on any setting inside the bootloader module (it is even impossible to set it in YaST), but it depends on the packages you have selected. Try "tabooing" LILO and selecting GRUB in the package selection, it should help. -- Regards, Jiri Srain YaST2 developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: jsrain@suse.cz Drahobejlova 27 tel: +420 2 9654 2373 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 2 9654 2374 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz
Oliver, also make sure you are using Service Pack 3, otherwise lilo will always be used. Anas Oliver Schwabedissen wrote:
Hello,
we are installing SLES8 with SP3 through HTTP. Although we specified grub as the boot loader we still get lilo installed by default and have to replace it with grub in our post install script.
<bootloader> <location>mbr</location> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <loader_device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</loader_device> <kernel_parameters>acpi=off 3</kernel_parameters> <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <module></module> </initrd_modules> </bootloader>
Hardware are HP server with /, /boot and /var mounted on normal partitions (HW RAID 1) and /home, /tmp and /usr mounted to LVM volumes (same RAID 1). All file systems are XFS.
Kernel and initrd in tftp directory are from SP3, we have the driverupdate file from SP3 CD1 linked to our SLES8 installation root (/autoyast/SLES8), in yast/order the paths to SP3 CD1 and CD2 are listed as the first entries.
Regards,
Oliver Schwabedissen
Hello Anas,
also make sure you are using Service Pack 3, otherwise lilo will always be used.
How can I "make sure" that I'm using SP3? Kernel and initrd from SP3 are loaded, the contents of the two SP3 CDs is in our autoyast root directory and the first entries in yast/order are pointing to these directories.
Hello,
we are installing SLES8 with SP3 through HTTP. Although we specified grub as the boot loader we still get lilo installed by default and have to replace it with grub in our post install script.
<bootloader> <location>mbr</location> <loader_type>grub</loader_type> <loader_device>/dev/cciss/c0d0</loader_device> <kernel_parameters>acpi=off 3</kernel_parameters> <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <module></module> </initrd_modules> </bootloader>
Hardware are HP server with /, /boot and /var mounted on normal
Oliver Schwabedissen wrote: partitions
(HW RAID 1) and /home, /tmp and /usr mounted to LVM volumes (same RAID 1). All file systems are XFS.
Kernel and initrd in tftp directory are from SP3, we have the driverupdate file from SP3 CD1 linked to our SLES8 installation root (/autoyast/SLES8), in yast/order the paths to SP3 CD1 and CD2 are listed as the first entries.
Regards,
Oliver Schwabedissen
-- DSL Komplett von GMX +++ Superg�nstig und stressfrei einsteigen! AKTION "Kein Einrichtungspreis" nutzen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl
we are installing SLES8 with SP3 through HTTP. Although we specified grub as the boot loader we still get lilo installed by default and have to replace it with grub in our post install script.
Seems I found the problem: 1. we never copied the file "driverupdate" from the SP3 CD1 to our autoyast installation directory until I last week fixed the not working HTTP installation for SLES8 ;-) 2. Doing some research in the archives of this list I found some hints that our yast/instorder file wasn't correct. It contained 2 columns, but should only contain one. I updated our yast/instorder and yast/order files and now grub is installed by default. Bye, Oliver -- Lassen Sie Ihren Gedanken freien Lauf... z.B. per FreeSMS GMX bietet bis zu 100 FreeSMS/Monat: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/mail
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