Re: [opensuse-autoinstall] JFYI - SLES11 SP2 is ready for download

So no suggestions on how to resolve this? On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:

On Tue, Feb 28, 2012 at 2:14 AM, Uwe Gansert wrote:

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Moin,

JFYI - SLES11 SP2 is ready for download http://www.suse.com/de-de/products/server/eval.html

The AutoYaST changes to SP1 can be found here: http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_changes_SLES11SP2.html

I'm seeing a strange problem when installing SLES11-SP2 inside of a kvm (virtualized) environment using autoyast.  The OS installs fine, but when it reboots afterwards, kvm can't find an active partition to boot from.  Sure enough when I run fdisk on the OS image file, none of the partitions have the 'boot' flag set:

######### Disk cuda-linux64-build17.img: 116.0 GB, 115964116992 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14098 cylinders, total 226492416 sectors Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disk identifier: 0x000f3e90

                  Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System cuda-linux64-build17.img1           2048   226492415   113245184    f W95 Ext'd (LBA) cuda-linux64-build17.img5           4096      159743       77824   83  Linux cuda-linux64-build17.img6          161792     2248703     1043456   82  Linux swap / Solaris cuda-linux64-build17.img7         2250752   226467839   112108544   83  Linux ########

I tried to manually set the boot flag to the very first partition (which is what gets set for a non-virtualized installation), but all that seemed to do was change the "no active partition" error to a "no bootable OS" error.

Here's what the partitioning and bootloader sections of my autoyast.xml file look like:

<partitioning config:type="list">      <drive>        <use>all</use>        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>        <partitions config:type="list">          <partition>            <mount>/boot</mount>            <size>75mb</size>            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext2</filesystem>          </partition>          <partition>            <mount>swap</mount>            <size>1012mb</size>            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>          </partition>          <partition>            <mount>/</mount>            <size>max</size>            <filesystem  config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>          </partition>        </partitions>     </drive>     </partitioning>        <bootloader>              <global config:type="list">                                  <key>prompt</key>                  <value config:type="boolean">false</value>                                                        <key>default</key><value>0</value>                                                        <key>timeout</key><value>3</value>                              </global>                console=ttyS0,115200 console=tty0                            grub              <location>mbr</location>              <sections config:type="list"/>        </bootloader>

While I'd love to chalk this up to some weird kvm bug, the only Linux distro exhibiting this problem is SLES11-SP2.  It works fine with the latest releases from RHEL, Fedora, Ubuntu, and even OpenSUSE(-12.1).

help?

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