Re: [suse-autoinstall] GRUB floppy behavioural problems

I was initially trying it with 8.0 and am now trying with 8.1, though I have both repositories available if one should work better than the other... Thanks, Amanda Anas Nashif wrote:

What are you trying to install? 8.0?

Anas

* Amanda Dahl,(4686) [Jan 08. 2003 16:08]:

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Hello, I am having problems booting with the GRUB floppy. Ideally, I would like to install via NFS and pickup the control file via NFS. But when I used the following menu.lst, it finds the control file and begins the installation just fine, and then stalls (with Error: 1, and no other information) when trying to install the package devs-2002.3.22-1.i386.rpm.

color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1

title autoinstall-bootp bootp ifconfig --address=192.168.122.236 --mask=255.255.255.0 --server=192.168.122.160 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux ip=192.168.122.236 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.122.254 nameserver=192.168.122.219 instmode=nfs install=nfs://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/suse80 autoyast=nfs://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/autoinst.xml initrd (nd)/initrd

title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1

A colleague suggested that installs via NFS can stall like that and to try using FTP instead. So I tried using the following menu.lst:

color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 8 framebuffer 1

title autoinstall-bootp bootp ifconfig --address=192.168.122.236 --mask=255.255.255.0 --server=192.168.122.160 root (nd) kernel (nd)/linux ip=192.168.122.236 netmask=255.255.255.0 gateway=192.168.122.254 nameserver=192.168.122.219 instmode=ftp install=ftp://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/suse80 autoyast=nfs://192.168.122.160/tftpboot/autoinst.xml initrd (nd)/initrd

title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1

Now, it takes forever to finally load the control file, and once it does, the installation fails when trying to initialize the package descriptions. From the /var/log/y2log, it appears to be checking /var/adm/mount/suse/descr/common.pkd and not finding it because it hasn't mounted anything because ftp was specified as the installation source.

When I tried using TFTP as the installation source, it couldn't find the installation media at all.

At this point, I'd be happy to either get it working using FTP or to figure out why it stops on the devs-2002.3.22-1.i386.rpm when using NFS.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks, Amanda

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-- Anas Nashif , SuSE Linux AG Montreal (Laval), Canada

-- Amanda K. Dahl Senior Systems Administrator Biopendium Production Inpharmatica, Ltd. 60 Charlotte Street London, W1T 2NU United Kingdom 020 7074 4686 tel 020 7074 4700 fax amanda@inpharmatica.co.uk http://www.inpharmatica.co.uk