hi
I'm attempting a SLES10 autoyast installation on a disk with
pre-configured partitions and getting the following error:
Error while configuring partitions. Try again!
in the preparing system for Automated installation screen.
I came across this thread
[http://lists.opensuse.org/archive/opensuse-autoinstall/2005-12/msg00040.html]
, but the workarounds suggested (usepart config:type "integer", etc)
in it did not work. I am using SLES10 while the other mail thread
mentioned SuSE10.
Was it a bug in SLES10 that got fixed later - say SLES10.1? Please let
me know, I can provide more details if required. Thanks.
Here's the partitions list (fdisk -l):
Disk /dev/sdb: 79.9 GB, 79930851328 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9717 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 1 841 6755301 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 842 1589 6008310 83 Linux
/dev/sdb3 1590 1714 1004062+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb4 1715 9717 64284097+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 1715 1865 1212876 83 Linux
/dev/sdb6 1866 2540 5421906 83 Linux
/dev/sdb7 2541 2592 417658+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb8 2593 3122 4257193+ 83 Linux
/dev/sdb9 3123 3128 48163+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sdb10 3129 3157 232911 82 Linux swap / Solaris
And here's the partition portion from the autoyast.xml (It is actually
/tmp/autoinst/modified.xml -> The one modified through a pre-script to
change to correct device - /dev/sdb for example).
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/sdb</device>
<initialize config:type="boolean">false</initialize>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<mount>/boot</mount>