[yast-devel] opensuse 12.1 DVD install showstopper: "An error occurred during initrd creation"
Hi, When I install the final 12.1 from the DVD, it fails during the "Saving bootloader configuration..." / "Install boot manager" phase with a dialog titled "An error occurred during initrd creation." (which has no other text). I am unable to complete the install after this point. This is probably the same bug as "Bug 713316 - mkinitrd: fails to run and/or shows no text during install" (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=3D713316) I've tried installing on three different platforms, and I get the same bug. If I install using the Live GNOME CD on these platforms, the install completes without difficulty. Has anyone succeeded in installing on any hardware using the 12.1 DVD? Thanks, Mike
I found a workaround for this bug. Apparently this is actually the bug mentioned here http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2009-09/msg00002.html which existed in 11.2. It was fixed in 11.3, and then was subsequently reintroduced and exists in 12.1 final. When installing via autoyast, it's sufficient to add these two packages. When installing straight from the DVD, it worked when I added all yast patterns (at least one of which contains these packages). Mike
Hi, I'm trying to install onto an IMSM (fakeraid) drive with autoyast, and it seems to work okay, except that I cannot figure out a way to kill off the useless (to me) dialog box, which says You are running on the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager... ...Volume0 ... Do you want MD Partitionable RAID subsystem to manage these partitions? The default here is 'Yes', which works for me, and which looking in the code seems to mean "use mdadm" (whereas 'No' would mean "use dmraid"). I've tried adding <imsmdriver config:type="symbol">IMSM_MDADM</imsmdriver>, but this doesn't seem to help. I've tried setting the device to "/dev/md" or "/dev/md0", but this doesn't work. I've tried passing a kernel parameter of LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=mdadm or =IMSM_MDADM--no luck. Does anyone know how to kill this off? Thanks, Mike
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:39:08PM -0600, Mike Coleman wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install onto an IMSM (fakeraid) drive with autoyast, and it seems to work okay, except that I cannot figure out a way to kill off the useless (to me) dialog box, which says
You are running on the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager... ...Volume0 ... Do you want MD Partitionable RAID subsystem to manage these partitions?
The default here is 'Yes', which works for me, and which looking in the code seems to mean "use mdadm" (whereas 'No' would mean "use dmraid").
I've tried adding <imsmdriver config:type="symbol">IMSM_MDADM</imsmdriver>, but this doesn't seem to help.
That does not work since the autoyast profile is loaded after the first probing where libstorage gives the popup.
I've tried setting the device to "/dev/md" or "/dev/md0", but this doesn't work. I've tried passing a kernel parameter of LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=mdadm or =IMSM_MDADM--no luck.
LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=mdadm should work. Which version of SUSE are you using? Can you provide the YaST logs? Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
I'm on opensuse 12.1 (from a mirror frozen shortly after the release). After playing with this more, I've been having a lot of problems fakeraid on this host (Dell T3500, Intel 82801JI), so I'm probably going to look at a software raid approach instead. (Specifically, the symptom is that during install, I get a disk error/failure. Then, after reboot, the fakeraid is in a "Failed" state, with one drive marked as a raid member and the other marked as non-raid (whereas both were initially raid members). I've tried various BIOS twiddling, but haven't figured out how to remove the "curse" from this machine, to allow it to install onto fakeraid again.) Unfortunately, I can't really send logs, because I can't get a fresh install going because of that. Thanks for your help, Mike -----Original Message----- From: Arvin Schnell [mailto:aschnell@suse.de] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 2:01 PM To: Mike Coleman Cc: yast-devel@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [yast-devel] unable to kill off IMSM dialog box On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 12:39:08PM -0600, Mike Coleman wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to install onto an IMSM (fakeraid) drive with autoyast, and it seems to work okay, except that I cannot figure out a way to kill off the useless (to me) dialog box, which says
You are running on the Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager... ...Volume0 ... Do you want MD Partitionable RAID subsystem to manage these partitions?
The default here is 'Yes', which works for me, and which looking in the code seems to mean "use mdadm" (whereas 'No' would mean "use dmraid").
I've tried adding <imsmdriver config:type="symbol">IMSM_MDADM</imsmdriver>, but this doesn't seem to help.
That does not work since the autoyast profile is loaded after the first probing where libstorage gives the popup.
I've tried setting the device to "/dev/md" or "/dev/md0", but this doesn't work. I've tried passing a kernel parameter of LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=mdadm or =IMSM_MDADM--no luck.
LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=mdadm should work. Which version of SUSE are you using? Can you provide the YaST logs? Regards, Arvin -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell@suse.de> Senior Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: yast-devel+owner@opensuse.org
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