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List:       suse-autoinstall
Subject:    RE: [opensuse-autoinstall] AutoYaST auto-installation in a VMware guest machine
From:       "THORNTON Simon" <Simon.THORNTON () swift ! com>
Date:       2007-10-12 8:04:28
Message-ID: 8F8949806842674287CC6E609A68F9770D3AB3 () BE-EXCHANGE-07 ! swift ! corp
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Hi John,

On the systems I have there is a symlink vmlinuz -> latest_kernel, the
default grub entry reads:

root (hd0,0)
kernel vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent

This way regardless of the actual kernel the grub entry is always
correct.

Similar symlinks are present for initrd and System.map.


Rgds,

Simon


-----Original Message-----
From: John Bown [mailto:john.bown@brulant.com] 
Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2007 15:47
To: opensuse-autoinstall@opensuse.org
Subject: [opensuse-autoinstall] AutoYaST auto-installation in a VMware
guest machine

Hello everyone.  My job requires that I frequently deploy fresh virtual
(VMware) installations of SLES 10, both with and without SP1, to our
developers.  To that end, I recently setup a machine from which I'd like
to test automating the process using a DVD as the source of the
installation files, and a floppy disk as the location of the control
file.  However, there seems to be a problem.

I boot the virtual machine to the DVD drive, the autoinst.xml file on
the floppy is then located, and off it goes.  The installation completes
flawlessly; however, when the newly created virtual machine attempts to
boot for the first time, I get the following, GRUB related error:

>>>>>SNIP<<<<<
root (hd0,1)
Filesystem type is reiserfs, partition type 0x83
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.53-0.8-smp  root=/dev/sda2 vga=0x31a
resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent

Error 15: File not found

Press any key to continue...
>>>>>SNIP<<<<<

Has anyone else out there come across this?  Are there any special steps
that need to be taken when performing an automated installation in a
virtual environment?  Many thanks.

 
John Bown
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