Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-autoinstall (134 mails)

[Uwe Gansert <ug@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:02, Frank Steiner wrote:

> > that's doable but actually I would like to know why the lba stuff is
> > detected wrong.
>
> Can I do sth. to create a more detailed log? I don't see the values
> coming from the bios in y2log...

since this is hardware detection, Steffen Winterfeld might know more about 
that (you are already in contact with him).

> > I need to take a closer look to the fix and do some tests.
>
> If you like, I can beta-test your pre-Uwe-Gansert-Code on my system,
> I really don't mind doing that. If you want to send me some .ybc (or
> .ycp files that I can recompile) I can use them via driverupdate and
> give you some feedback. It's a test system, so it doesn't matter if
> a sideeffect blows up the whole disk :-)

I have attached a patch for autoinst.ycp
After you have applied the patch, you need to recompile AutoinstStorage.ycp

-- 
ciao, Uwe Gansert

Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany
Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug
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Index: include/autopart.ycp
===================================================================
--- include/autopart.ycp	(Revision 32646)
+++ include/autopart.ycp	(Arbeitskopie)
@@ -1103,7 +1103,7 @@
           */
         if( size(g["gap"]:[])>0 &&
             ((g["extended_possible"]:false && 
-              size(g["free_pnr"]:[])>0 &&
+//            size(g["free_pnr"]:[])>0 &&             // reusing all 4 primaries will fail with this
               size(ps)+1 <= size(g["ext_pnr"]:[])+size(g["free_pnr"]:[])) ||
              (!g["extended_possible"]:false &&
               size(ps) <= size(g["ext_pnr"]:[])+size(g["free_pnr"]:[]))) )