Partitioning issues with pSeries

10 Oct 2006

      Hi,

I'm trying to install SLES10 on an IBM pSeries p655. I use the same
partitioning scheme that I used successfully for SLES10 in i586, just
that I need a special prep-type partition as /dev/sda1. However, 
partitioning fails. Looking at y2log, it seems that AY creates an
additional primary partition with ext2 or sth. The log file is here:
http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/y2log.ppc.gz

And I used the following profile (derived from SLES9 and the working SLES10 i586
profiles). Any ideas what I'm doing wrong?

cu,
Frank

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE profile SYSTEM "/usr/share/autoinstall/dtd/profile.dtd">
<profile xmlns="http://www.suse.com/1.0/yast2ns" xmlns:config="http://www.suse.com/1.0/configns">

    <bootloader>
    <global>
    </global>
      <loader_device>/dev/sda</loader_device>
      <loader_type>lilo</loader_type>
      <location>custom</location>
   </bootloader>

    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>/dev/sda</device>
        <partitions config:type="list">

          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">prep</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>prep</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>1</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>swap</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>2gb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>/</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>15gb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>/local</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">5</partition_nr>

            <size>8gb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>/var</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">6</partition_nr>

            <size>5gb</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <create config:type="boolean">true</create>
	    <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
	    <fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
	    <mount>/usr/local/storage</mount>
            <partition_nr config:type="integer">7</partition_nr>

            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>

    </partitioning>
</profile>

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