[sles-beta] SLES12 x86_64 beta RC1 autoyast network installation not working

Tue Aug 5 02:42:48 MDT 2014

Hi Darren
It is not autoyast, it is linuxrc causing problems with the network configration.
I am not yet in yast, no autoinst.xml profile fetched yet.
I am at the very beginning, trying to configure the network in linuxrc getting a connection to me network install server to fetch autoinst.xml later

In the changelog Beta10-RC1 I can see the following entries concerning linuxrc

-------------------------------------
o Updated linuxrc (security/bugfix/feature)

- fix point-to-point interface handling (bnc #889580)
- 5.0.8
- pass along hostname if explicitly set (bnc #889374)
- 5.0.7
- add missing break
- more dead code cleanup
- fix evil nameserver config bug
- make debugwait option more useful
- make log file script behave
- 5.0.6
- remove more parts of old network code
- remove obsolete config.netdevice
- 5.0.5
- ui directly uses new network code, remove obsolete code
- remove obsolete yast2_color var
- remove sax2 option
- don't write network info into /etc/install.inf
- remove obsolete pcmcia code
- 5.0.4
- fix network setup
- 5.0.3
- use wicked to setup static network config
- support ptp setups and accept global default netmask value for all ips
- put copy of old-style config into new config
- better internal logging of network config entries
- 5.0.2
- continue network code reworking:
- fix network re-config (bnc #887841)
- move network setup into separate menu item
- move various net_activate_s390_devs() calls into a single place
- unify network config code
- remove obsolete code
- 5.0.1
- fix proxy handling in linuxrc
- 5.0.0
- avoid server name resolution
- don't resolve proxy name
- enable ipv6 by default
- clean up cifs and nfs code
- fix segfault and accept ipv6 netmasks (bnc 887501)
- 4.2.45
---------------------------------

So there have been many changes
Obviously the network configuration in the linuxrc process has changed and therefore the info file parameters

Best regards

Urs Frey
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Von: Darren Thompson [mailto:darrent at akurit.com.au]
Gesendet: Tuesday, August 05, 2014 10:38 AM
An: Frey Urs, IT222
Cc: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Betreff: Re: [sles-beta] SLES12 x86_64 beta RC1 autoyast network installation not working

Urs

It's possible the autoyast file format has changed (they have been doing lots of work with autoyast over the last few betas/rc).

I have recreated my autoyast files and they seem to be working as expected.

Darren

On 5 August 2014 18:32, <urs.frey at post.ch<mailto:urs.frey at post.ch>> wrote:
Hi

I am trying to install SLES12 x86_64 RC1 using my autoyast.xml profile which was well working with SLES12 Beta9 now with RC1

With RC1 Linuxrc process asks me the IP address, why??
In my info file in the initrd the IP-address is well defined, well working with beta9

freyu at v04yf4:~> cat /appl/custom_iso/info_sles12_v03er9
netwait: 40
splash : verbose
net.ifnames: 0
install: http://172.27.40.68/sles12_64
netdevice: eth0
hostname: v03er9
hostip: 10.1.100.167
netmask: 255.255.254.0
gateway: 10.1.101.254
nameserver: 10.1.121.11
autoyast: http://172.27.40.68/pstkits/profiles/sles12_autoinst_v03er9.xml
netsetup:-dhcp,+hostip,+gateway,+netmask,+nameserver
udev.rule: "mac=00:50:56:b7:02:a9,name=eth0"
freyu at v04yf4:~>

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When I enter the network address 10.1.100.167/23<http://10.1.100.167/23>, all network parameters are asked, gateway, nameserver, dns search domains, even they are defined in the info file
After defining these parameters I get the screen, that the installation media can not been found

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With ALT-F9 I can see, that the network did not get defined. So it is obvious, that the installation media can not been found.

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I state Network installation with autoyast SLES12 x86_64 RC1 is not possible due to a bug in Linuxrc Network configuration

Best regards

Urs Frey
Post CH AG
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Telefon : ++41 (0)58 338 58 70
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