unattendend Install with IMSM RAID not working

[Feldweg, Stefan]

Hello,

I'm trying to do a fully unattended Install of SLES 11 SP2 on a System with a configured RAID by Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Everything is running well except that i get a message
"You are running an Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager compatible platform
The following MD-compatible RAID devices were detected:
Volume0
If they are clean devices or conatain partitions, you can use MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to handle them. In case of a clean device you will be able to install a System on it and boot from such a RAID. Do you want MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to manage These partitions?"

If i answer Yes on that Message everything goes well and the Installation is running fully unattendend.
How can i get rid of that message?

Thanks in advance!

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

Stefan Feldweg

[Thomas Fehr]

Hi,

Post by Feldweg, Stefan
Hello,
I'm trying to do a fully unattended Install of SLES 11 SP2 on a System with a configured RAID by Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Everything is running well except that i get a message
"You are running an Intel(R) Matrix Storage Manager compatible platform
Volume0
If they are clean devices or conatain partitions, you can use MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to handle them. In case of a clean device you will be able to install a System on it and boot from such a RAID. Do you want MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to manage These partitions?"
If i answer Yes on that Message everything goes well and the Installation is running fully unattendend.
How can i get rid of that message?

yast2-storage/libstorage check the environment variable LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER.
For forcing it to use mdadm partitionable raid you need to set to "MDADM".
You can e.g. add LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=MDADM to boot command prompt, this puts
it into environment of started yast2.

Tschuess,
Thomas Fehr

[Feldweg, Stefan]

Hello,

thanks for the quick response.
I forgot to mention that I'm doing a Network Install via PXE-Boot. And I don't know where to set that parameter since I haven't got a "boot prompt"?

Mit freundlichen Grüßen

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Von: Thomas Fehr [mailto:***@suse.de]
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 18. Dezember 2013 14:51
An: Feldweg, Stefan
Cc: opensuse-***@opensuse.org
Betreff: Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] unattendend Install with IMSM RAID not working

Hi,

Post by Feldweg, Stefan
Hello,
I'm trying to do a fully unattended Install of SLES 11 SP2 on a System
with a configured RAID by Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Everything is
Volume0
If they are clean devices or conatain partitions, you can use MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to handle them. In case of a clean device you will be able to install a System on it and boot from such a RAID. Do you want MD Partitionable RAID Subsystem to manage These partitions?"
If i answer Yes on that Message everything goes well and the Installation is running fully unattendend.
How can i get rid of that message?

yast2-storage/libstorage check the environment variable LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER.
For forcing it to use mdadm partitionable raid you need to set to "MDADM".
You can e.g. add LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=MDADM to boot command prompt, this puts it into environment of started yast2.

Tschuess,
Thomas Fehr
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[Thomas Fehr]

Hi,

Post by Feldweg, Stefan
Hello,
thanks for the quick response.
I forgot to mention that I'm doing a Network Install via PXE-Boot. And I don't know where to set that parameter since I haven't got a "boot prompt"?

The PXE server should have an "append" line in its PXE config.
If you use autoyast you should have an autoyast=.... entry there
Just add LIBSTORAGE_IMSM_DRIVER=MDADM to this append line.

Tschuess,
Thomas Fehr