Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

From: Bernd Nies (listuser_at_adnovum.ch)
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 10:39:59 CET

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Message-ID: <437AFE6F.6030909@adnovum.ch>
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 10:39:59 +0100
From: Bernd Nies <listuser@adnovum.ch>
Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] SLES9 + SP2 on DVD

Alexei Roudnev wrote:
> It all looks as well known issue with megaraid; you can install from
> release and then upgrade to SP1 and then to SP2.
>
> I am not sure in yoru case, but if you try to upgrade RELEASE -> SP2 without
> SP1 first, you will got into the same issue. They (SuSe) changed module name
> somewhere, and system put wrong module into inetrd (use wrong name) and so
> cannot find root disk.

On the SLES9 SP2 DVD that I created according to Kirk's instructions
earlier in this thread I solved this problem by replacing the kernel and
ramdisk containing modules and Yast installer with that from SP2 CD.

So, creating a bootable DVD from YaST SLES9 SP2 installation source is
as follows:

1) Take original SLES9 SP2 installation source which looks like this:

    lrwxrwxrwx boot -> SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/boot
    lrwxrwxrwx content -> SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/content
    lrwxrwxrwx control.xml -> SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/control.xml
    lrwxrwxrwx driverupdate ->
SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD1/driverupdate
    lrwxrwxrwx linux -> SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD1/linux
    lrwxrwxrwx media.1 -> SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/media.1
    drwxr-xr-x SUSE-CORE-Version-9
    drwxr-xr-x SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2
    drwxr-xr-x SUSE-SLES-Version-9
    drwxr-xr-x yast

2) Remove CD4 and CD5 of SUSE-CORE-Version-9 and remove also CD3 from
service pack 2, because they only contain source RPMs.

    rm -rf SUSE-CORE-Version-9/CD4
    rm -rf SUSE-CORE-Version-9/CD5
    rm -rf SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD3

3) Remove the boot link and copy boot image

rm boot
cp -va SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/boot .

4) Copy linux and initrd from the Service Pack CD1 because the SLES9
ramdisk and kernel has problems with Dell Poweredge 2850 SCSI

cp SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/boot/loader/linux boot/loader
cp SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/boot/loader/initrd boot/loader

5) If using Autoyast, create a postinstall script to add the correct
installation source. This is by default wrong in this setup:

    rm -rf /var/adm/YaST/InstSrcManager/IS_CACHE_0x*
    installation_sources -e -a cd:///SUSE-SLES-9-Service-Pack-Version-2/CD1/
    installation_sources -e -a cd:///SUSE-SLES-Version-9/CD1/
    installation_sources -e -a cd:///SUSE-CORE-Version-9/CD1/

6) Create ISO file

    mkisofs -r -J -l -L \
         -V SLES9_SP2 -P "Novell/SUSE"\
         -iso-level 4 \
         -b boot/loader/isolinux.bin \
         -c boot/loader/boot.cat -no-emul-boot \
         -boot-load-size 4 \
         -boot-info-table \
         -graft-points \
         -o ../sles9sp2-dvd.iso \
         .
7) Burn DVD

growisofs -Z /dev/cdrecorder=../sles9sp2-dvd.iso

Regards,
Bernd

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