Left Pane: Please wait while the system is prepared for autoinstallation

Right Window:

[x] Probe Hardware => Retrieve read control file - ... - ...

The bar at the bottom of this screen stops at 28% and it goes nowhere.

This is the very same machine that I used to create the reference profile, so I'm confused as to why it's not working :(

Hi all, An update to this - I've created a working profile in a vmware installation now. This profile installs an SLES9 RC1 installation with no user intervention. I'm using SCSI disks in my vmware machine, so all partitioning happens to the same disks as it should happen to on the real server that I can't get working (SunFire V65x) Once I created the working profile, I copied it to my installation server, and attempted to install to the Sun again. I have exactly the same problem as previously. The _only_ differences between the two configurations are as follows: 1. Sun uses e1000 for network device while vmware uses pcnet 2. Sun uses scsi aic79xx controller, while vmware uses LSI Looking at console 2 (F2) while the machine is sitting at 28%, I can see that the aic79xx.ko module has been loaded. I am assuming this as I see: insmod /modules/aic79xx.ko Ok, That seems to have worked. :) Ok, That seems to have worked. :) The last thing I see on this screen (F2) is as follows: going to automatic install Loading image "/var/adm/mount/boot/root" mount: /dev/ram2: we need a loop device mount: using /dev/loop0 starting setctsid `showconsole` inst_setup_yast The last thing I have on console 3 (F3) is: (none) kernel: md: autodetecting RAID arrays (none) kernel: md: autorun ... (none) kernel: md: ... autorun DONE (none) kernel: md: end_request: I/O error, dev fd0, sector 0 (none) last message repeated 2 times Can anyone point me to where I can find a solution for this ? I'm pretty sure the autoyast file is mostly ok at this point, because it installs to a virtual machine. There is no explicit mention of LSI or AMR in that autoyast file. Thanks in advance, -- Wayne Pascoe