SLES 10: more than one primary partition?

31 Jul 2006

      Hi,

I'm trying to use the partition scheme that used for partitioning SLES8 and SLES9 systems.

The minimal autoinst.xml snippet looks like 

    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">VAR_boot_filesystem</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
            <size>96M</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>
            <size>8192M</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>

What I expect is:
1st primary 96M /boot
2nd primary some 130G /
1st logical 6G swap

What I get is:
/ # fdisk -l

Disk /dev/cciss/c0d0: 146.8 GB, 146807930880 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17848 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

           Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/cciss/c0d0p1               1          13      104391   83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p2              14       17848   143259637+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5              14       16803   134865643+  83  Linux
/dev/cciss/c0d0p6           16804       17848     8393931   82  Linux swap / Solaris

BTW. If I do not specify partition_id and partition_nr for swap then root get's first logical partion and swap second one.

Is there any chance to force / to be a primary partition w/o using part.info? http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Partitioning.html#id252979... sugests that my snippet should do what I want...

br
Holger Reif

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