Uwe Gansert wrote
On Monday 04 September 2006 14:55, Frank Steiner wrote:
Architecture is i586 and it is added because YaST2 thinks that the bios of my host does not support lba, see my first mail:
ah, okay. I did not read that carefully enough.
I think some option to force AY to ignore the 1024 cylinders stuff would be useful, now that the lba32 option is ignored. Because hacking an ugly patch into driverupdates is not nice :-(
Although I specify four primary partitions (or does partition_nr not correspond to /dev/sda$partition_nr?
it does but it's only used when reusing partitions In your case, you need the partition_type
Ah, I missed that, sorry! Creation now works with the partition_type! Thanks! I guess the docu should be changed because I stepped on this sentence "You can force autoyast to create only primary partitions by configuring only partition numbers below 5." at http://www.suse.de/~ug/autoyast_doc/CreateProfile.Partitioning.html and so I though that partition_nr would work for creating partitions, too. Anyway, I'm still having problems :-) Now I created the partitions, and for testing, I used the same profile, just that now I keep all partitions and just format some. But then I get "Error while configuring partitions". fdisk -l shows Disk /dev/sda: 146.7 GB, 146771896320 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 17844 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 1914 15374173+ 83 Linux /dev/sda2 1915 2553 5132767+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris /dev/sda3 2554 2685 1060290 83 Linux /dev/sda4 2686 17844 121764667+ 83 Linux and my profile is below. Is there anything obviously wrong in the profile? I've looked into y2log and don't understand the algorithm in autopart.ycp good enough to see why it is failing. The y2log.gz is here if you want to take a look: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/y2log.gz cu, Frank <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fstopt>defaults</fstopt> <mount>/</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <fstopt>defaults</fstopt> <mount>swap</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <fstopt>defaults</fstopt> <mount>/var</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">3</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> <partition> <create config:type="boolean">false</create> <filesystem config:type="symbol">reiser</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">false</format> <fstopt>defaults</fstopt> <mount>/export</mount> <partition_nr config:type="integer">4</partition_nr> <partition_type>primary</partition_type> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. *