Is it possible to select a DUD via autoyast profile?

Hi All,

I’ve got an existing autoyast profile to auto-install to a particular hardware configuration. Now we are introducing a new hardware configuration that requires a different RAID driver (mutually exclusive with the driver for the old hardware configuration, i.e. the different chipsets require different versions of the same driver) which I need to auto-install as well. This is simple enough with a separate GRUB entry - I just have a separate initrd or have a dud= entry for the new hardware.

Ideally though I’d like to avoid having a user select the hardware type in grub. Now if I use dud=1, autoyast will prompt me for the location of the DUD sometime after the initial kernel loads but before the install starts. Is it possible to put the DUD selection in my autoyast profile, so that it loads at this same point? Or is this not possible because the DUD has to be loaded before the profile is examined? I’ve searched through all the documentation I can find and have found nothing that says either way - but all DUD examples I find load directly to into the kernel via GRUB…

This is for SLES 11 SP1 - I am restricted to using this specific version…

Cheers,
Russell.

On 26/06/2012 17:54, russell mora wrote:
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I’ve got an existing autoyast profile to auto-install to a particular
hardware configuration. Now we are introducing a new hardware
configuration that requires a different RAID driver (mutually exclusive
with the driver for the old hardware configuration, i.e. the different
chipsets require different versions of the same driver) which I need to
auto-install as well. This is simple enough with a separate GRUB entry -
I just have a separate initrd or have a dud= entry for the new
hardware.

Ideally though I’d like to avoid having a user select the hardware type
in grub. Now if I use dud=1, autoyast will prompt me for the location of
the DUD sometime after the initial kernel loads but before the install
starts. Is it possible to put the DUD selection in my autoyast profile,
so that it loads at this same point? Or is this not possible because the
DUD has to be loaded before the profile is examined? I’ve searched
through all the documentation I can find and have found nothing that
says either way - but all DUD examples I find load directly to into the
kernel via GRUB…

This is for SLES 11 SP1 - I am restricted to using this specific
version…[/color]

Since you’re using SLES11 I think the thread started at
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-autoinstall/2009-09/msg00003.html should
help. Novell support TID 7009981 may also be of interest.

HTH.

Simon
Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner