* Marcel Ritter <Marcel.Ritter@rrze.uni-erlangen.de> [Apr 22. 2002 18:22]:

On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Anas Nashif wrote:

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* Marcel Ritter <Marcel.Ritter@rrze.uni-erlangen.de> [Apr 22. 2002 18:12]:

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Why do you need a floppy image with PXE? To boot with all modules you need to use the images available in suse/images/boot on the first CD.

That's exactly what I missed :-) If I recall correctly on SuSE 7.3 I had to hack it myself - if it's already done on SuSE 8.0 -> great :-) Not really, these files has always been there :-) That is exactly what we need to create the bootable CDs...

If you say so :-)

... first installation is running - one little problem:

How to I load aic7xxx_old instead of aic7xxx (which causes some trouble with my controller)? I had a look at the docu but I couldn't find anything similar to the ALICE insmod list. You can either add insmod=aic7xxx_old on the command line or have a linuxrc conf file (info) on the boot media with the keyword insmod just as it was possible with earlier versions.

I see - so it's the same as it was with ALICE.

Not exactly, it is the same as it was with autoyast1. There is another, still untested way to load modules.. In the bootloader directive of the control file you can add a list of initrd modules, i.e. <bootloader> ... <initrd_modules config:type="list"> <initrd_module>aic7xxx_old</initrd_module> </initrd_modules> ... </bootloader> The problem is, by the time this is evaluated, aic7xxx is already loaded... Another way to do it is to use the pre-install scripts, by using rmmod aic7xxx insmod aic7xxx_old I am not 100% sure this will work though. Anas

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See http://www.suse.de/~nashif/autoinstall/linuxrc.html for more information.

Anas Nashif

Thanx again, Marcel

-- Anas Nashif <nashif@suse.com>, SuSE Linux AG Montreal (Laval), Canada