Bug 129635

Summary:	Install settings in info file ignored
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE LINUX 10.0	Reporter:	Thomas Muders <tmuders>
Component:	Installation	Assignee:	Steffen Winterfeldt <snwint>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	i686
OS:	SuSE Linux 10.0
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Description Thomas Muders 2005-10-20 06:25:39 UTC

When you want to set up an autoinstall with boot from CD and add the 
installation source to the info file in the ramdisk instead of adding it to the 
commandline with install=..., the setting is ignored and SLP is always used.
Example: info file contains
Install: http://server/suse/9.3
on install, it looks up the IP for server but then tries doing SLP.
It seems that the graphical boot menu of isolinux adds the line install=slp to 
the command line and that overrides the entry in the info file. I fixed it for 
myself with a hex editor, searching for install=slp in bootlogo and replace the 
i with a null byte.

Comment 1 Thomas Muders 2005-10-20 06:26:15 UTC

This bug is also in 9.3, Solution the same.
It was not there in at least 9.1 and 9.2.

Comment 2 Michael Radziej 2005-10-20 10:35:32 UTC

Can you please attach the /var/log/YaST2 directory (as a tar file)?
Please take a look at http://www.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ#YaST
if you have any problems.

Comment 3 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-20 11:30:11 UTC

Specifying two conflicting install=foo options does not work. If you
want to put it into an 'info' file, don't put it on the command line.
Select 'CD-ROM' as install source for that.

Comment 4 Thomas Muders 2005-10-21 05:36:56 UTC

I understand that supplying both command line and info file is not supported. The problem is that the default option install=slp sets exactly this on the command line and so overrides the info file. The correct behaviour should be: if the default (install=slp or whatever) is selected, the bootlogo should *not* set  the command line option, but linuxrc should choose the default option in absence of the command line option so that the info file would override this default and would work again (like it did in 9.1 and 9.2!)

Comment 5 Steffen Winterfeldt 2005-10-21 09:05:05 UTC

Yes, set the default to cdrom, and you're fine.