Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-ppc (13 mails)

[Tomas Baublys <BAUBLYS@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi list,

I am installing SLES9 SP1 on on p615 and OpenPower using software raid. I
am using md0 for / (root) and md1 for LVM and usrlv, varlv, homelv etc. on
it.

This is how my partitioning looks like:

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          12       24560    6  FAT16
/dev/sda2              18         118      206848   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sda3             119       17357    35305472   fd  Linux raid
autodetect

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sdb1   *           1          12       24560    6  FAT16
/dev/sdb2              18         118      206848   fd  Linux raid
autodetect
/dev/sdb3             119       17357    35305472   fd  Linux raid
autodetect

After the base installation the system is not bootable: "Config file error:
Syntax error near line 2 in file yaboot.cnf ".
So I need to start a rescue system, mount the /dev/sda1 and remove the line
"partition= " in the yaboot.cnf .

This line is produced by /sbin/lilo script, line 397:
 echo "partition = ${yaboot_part##*:}"
Changing the line to test -z "${yaboot_part##*:}" || echo "partition =
${yaboot_part##*:}" would help, unfortunately I only can do it in the
autoyast or remove the "partition=" line in the postinstall script.

Do you have any ideas how to correct this during manual installation
without using a rescue system?



Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best regards,

Tomas Baublys
IBM Germany, Godesberger Allee 115, 53175 Bonn