Re: [suse-autoinstall] chroot scripts and mkinitrd

3 Feb 2003


      * Andy Wray  [Jan 31. 2003 07:54]:
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Well, I thought this was a good idea, but it didn't work.  I changed the
reboot option under the "general" settings section from "true" to
"false" and changed the script from chroot to post and added a mk_initrd
line at the end, but it still rebooted and the post script never ran.
I guess the next thing would be to get the updated mkinitrd script onto
the installation source somehow...
You have to use <forceboot config:type="boolean">true<forceboot> to force
booting the installed system directly after inital phase.


Anas
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Thanks again,
--Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@suse.de] 
Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 12:28 AM
To: Andy Wray
Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] chroot scripts and mkinitrd
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Anas,
Thanks very much for the prompt reply!  I did give this a shot, and as
you mentioned, order is important, and unfortunately it came out
backwards this way.  I suppose I could put an insmod=mptbase on the
kernel command line and see if this makes mptbase load first.  Is
* Andy Wray  [Jan 31. 2003 06:04]:
there
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an easy way to setup the module dependencies from the autoyast
configuration file to fix this?
No. 
Does the machine boot before the installation is finished? You can force
it to
continue and use the script you have written for chroot as postinstall
and
recreate the mkinitrd.
Anas
...
Thanks again,
--Andy
-----Original Message-----
From: Anas Nashif [mailto:nashif@suse.de] 
Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 11:26 PM
To: Andy Wray
Cc: suse-autoinstall@suse.com
Subject: Re: [suse-autoinstall] chroot scripts and mkinitrd
Andy,
Try adding tihs to the bootloader resource and let me know if it works
for you:
....
<bootloader>
    .....
    
        <module>mptbase</module>
        <module>mptscsih</module>
    
.....
</bootloader>
....
the only problem that might arise is the right ordering of the modules
which
might be significant in the initrd.
Anas
* Andy Wray  [Jan 31. 2003 05:16]:
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I'm trying to setup an unattended network install on a system with
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LSI
53c1030 SCSI controller running the boot drive.  There's a bug in
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SuSE 8.1 installer (SuSE 8.1 is what I'm trying to install) that
leaves
the mptbase driver that is needed by the mptscsih driver out of the
/etc/sysconfig/kernel file, and consequently it isn't included in
...
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initrd, so on the first bootup, mptscsih fails to load and the
system
can't mount /.
To fix this I thought I'd run a chroot script to update the
/etc/sysconfig/kernel file.  However, although this file appears to
run
(there's output in the /var/adm/autoinstall/logs directory), the
/etc/sysconfig/kernel file remains unchanged.  Of course, even if
an
the
the
this
...
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worked, I'm not sure if it would fix the problem since I'm not sure
if
the chroot scripts run before or after mkinitrd.
I've appended a portion of the autoyast installation file below.
Can
anyone help me with this?  (The alternative I have right now is that
there is a replacement mkinitrd on the SuSE ftp site provided as a
diskette image, but this doesn't help much for an unattended network
install.  mkinitrd appears to be part of the aaa_base package, so I
was
thinking I could replace it in that package, but I'd rather not do
that
if possible).
<scripts>
      <chroot-scripts config:type="list">
        <script>
          <filename>fixinitrd.sh</filename>
          <interpreter>shell</interpreter>
          <source>

/mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel.new
cat /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel.new #for debug
rm -f /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel
mv /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel.new /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel
cat /mnt/etc/sysconfig/kernel.new #for debug
]]>
          </source>
        </script>
      </chroot-scripts>
    </scripts>
Thanks,
--Andy
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