Chapter 4. Configuration and Installation Options

The mode section configures the behavior of AutoYaST with regard to confirmation and rebooting. The following has to be in the <general><mode> section.

By default, the user must confirm the auto-installation process. This option allows the user to view and change the settings for a target system before they are committed and can be used for debugging. confirm is set to "true" by default to avoid recursive installs when the system schedules a reboot after initial system setup. Only disable confirmation if you want to carry out a fully unattended installation.

With halt you cause AutoYaST to shut down the machine after all packages have been installed. Instead of a reboot into stage two, the machine is turned off. The bootloader is alreay installed and all your chroot scripts have run.

final_halt and final_reboot have been introduced with openSUSE 11.0 and SLES11. You can reboot or halt the machine after installation and configuration are finished at the end of stage 2.

openSUSE 11.0 uses the kexec feature and does not reboot anymore between stage1 and stage2. With the forceboot option you can force the reboot in case you need it for some reason. The value "true" will reboot, "false" will not reboot and a missing forceboot option uses the product's default.

    <general>
      <signature-handling>
        <accept_unsigned_file         config:type="boolean">true</accept_unsigned_file>
        <accept_file_without_checksum config:type="boolean">true</accept_file_without_checksum>
        <accept_verification_failed   config:type="boolean">true</accept_verification_failed>
        <accept_unknown_gpg_key       config:type="boolean">true</accept_unknown_gpg_key>
        <import_gpg_key               config:type="boolean">true</import_gpg_key>
        <accept_non_trusted_gpg_key   config:type="boolean">true</accept_non_trusted_gpg_key>
      </signature-handling>
      <mode>
        <halt config:type="boolean">false</halt>
        <forceboot config:type="boolean">false</forceboot>     <! -- since 11.0 -->
        <final_reboot config:type="boolean">false</final_reboot>   <! -- since 11.0 -->
        <final_halt config:type="boolean">false</final_halt>       <! -- since 11.0 -->
        <confirm config:type="boolean">true</confirm>
        <second_stage config:type="boolean">true</second_stage>
      </mode>
      <proposals config:type="list">        <!-- since 11.1 -->
        <proposal>partitions_proposal</proposal>
      </proposals>
      <wait>  <!-- since 11.1 / SLES11 -->
          <pre-modules config:type="list">
              <module>
                  <name>networking</name>
                  <sleep>
                      <time config:type="integer">10</time>
                      <feedback config:type="boolean">true</feedback>
                  </sleep>
                  <script>
                      <source>
                          sleep 5
                      </source>
                      <debug config:type="boolean">false</debug>
                  </script>
              </module>
          </pre-modules>
          <post-modules config:type="list">
              <module>
                  <name>networking</name>
                  <sleep>
                      <time config:type="integer">3</time>
                      <feedback config:type="boolean">true</feedback>
                  </sleep>
                  <script>
                      <source>
                          sleep 7
                      </source>
                      <debug config:type="boolean">false</debug>
                  </script>
              </module>
          </post-modules>
      </wait>

      <!-- the storage section was invented with openSUSE 11.3 and SLES11 SP2 -->
      <storage>
        <!--
            partition_alignment:

            `align_optimal  - That's the default. Partitions are aligned like the kernel suggests.
                              This can lead to problem with some machines/bioses that are unable to boot with that
                              alignment
            `align_cylinder - that's the alignment like it was in pre-openSUSE 11.3 time for years. Partitions
                              always start on a cylinder boundary
        -->
        <partition_alignment config:type="symbol">align_cylinder</partition_alignment>
      </storage>

    </general>