October 2011 - openSUSE Autoinstall - openSUSE Mailing Lists

linuxrc - netdevice=<hwaddress>
by John Willis 18 Dec '12

18 Dec '12

Does anyone know if any of the SLES releases 9 or 10 support passing the linuxrc option netdevice=<hardware mac address> ? I noticed Red Hat has had this for sometime and it seems totally missing in SuSE which seems really odd. I'm still scratching my head if we really are still passing only by kernel interface name. I read in the change log for linuxrc-1.8.6-3 a change that "sounds" like this feature. * Mon Mar 14 2005 - snwint(a)suse.de - s390: fix segfault in net_list_s390_devs() - extra root image was sometimes not used - allow netdevices to be specified by hwaddress But it looks like linuxrc-1.8.6-3 is only available in SuSE Professional 9.3. "any" commentary would be sincerely appreciated the feature also seems to be fairly minor since any delimiter seperating the octets in the hwaddr string could be used to identify the difference between an interface name and interface hw address if i could figure out a generic method of overriding the linuxrc with a custom script and daisy chain it back into linuxrc after setting up the interface name, I would.. and have a slight idea on how to do that.. but i'd rather find out i'm just missing something and the feature is already there Thanks!

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[opensuse-autoinstall] autoyast with multiple LVM Volume Groups
by big beer 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Hello, I'm trying to have autoyast setup some LVM volume groups. I can get things setup with a single volume group, but if try to add 2 volume groups I seem to be running into some issue. I'm using the following xml inside the partitioning section to setup the PVs and add to the volume groups. . . . <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>firstvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdc</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <lvm_group>secondvg</lvm_group> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> <size>max</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> . . . The problem is that both disks are configured as PVs in the same VG. Both sdb and sdc will be added to firstvg and secondvg will not exist. Am I trying this wrong or am I hitting some sort of bug? thanks -- bigbeer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] Specify kernel version
by Alexander Holte-Davidsen 21 Oct '11

21 Oct '11

Hi! We are running in to some problems with our autoyast installs. The problem is not directly connected to autoyast, but to the kernel version beeing selected via autoyast. One of out most important piece of software are having problems with the newest kernel from Novell, kernel-default-2.6.32.46, and fails to start. With the previous version of the kernel, kernel-default-2.6.32.45 everything works as expected. Since we can not halt installation of new servers until the software is fixed, we need to automatically choose kernel-default-2.6.32.45 during installation. I have looked through the autoyast documentation and I can see that I'm able to select a kernel using <kernel>kernel-default</kernel> in the software selection. I have tried to specify the kernel version aswell, but by doing this autoyast selects a different kernel, for example kernel-ec2. Is there any way to specify the kernel version? I tried with: <kernel>kernel-default-2.6.32.45</kernel> and <kernel>kernel-default-2.6.32.45-0.3.2.1</kernel>, but with luck.. All help would be greatly appreciated! Best regards, Alexander Holte-Davidsen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-autoinstall] media file time stamp after updating local repository
by Cameron Seader 08 Oct '11

08 Oct '11

Uwe, Is the media.1/media file on the DVD media supposed to be updated with a time stamp anytime the repository is updated? If I run a zypper refresh then it only seems to look at the media.1/media file and then doesn't actually parse the rest of the suse/setup/descr/packages* files if it's the same number (timestamp) in there. I had always assumed the media file was something to be left alone since the create_update script made it. after changing the timestamp I am now able to run a zypper ref on the repository and get the updates I dropped in. Thanks, -- Cameron Seader Premium Services Engineer 1800 South Novell Place Provo, UT 84606 Office: 801-349-2661 Cell: 208-420-2167 cs(a)novell.com Novell | SUSE -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+owner(a)opensuse.org

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