Re: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast tries to install into memory disk

4 Mar 2005


      Jeremy,
when this happens, then yast2 could not mount the root partition. This 
error is not caught anywhere unfortunatly. I will try to reproduce and 
offer a solution. Is that SLES9 you are using?

Anas

Jeremy Sanders wrote:
...
I've finally solved my raid partitioning problem (though autoyast does 
try to use the separate swap devices in the swap raid for swap, sigh).
However, now yast tries to install the distribution into memory disk (or 
at least somewhere with not enough room). It fails a couple of minutes 
in with a ERROR(InstTarget:E_RpmDB_subprocess_failed). I have /dev/md0 
specified as /, so I have no idea why it's not installing the 
distribution there.
<drive>
      <device>/dev/md</device>
      <partitions config:type="list">
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <mount>/</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">0</partition_nr>
          <raid_options>
            <raid_type>raid1</raid_type>
          </raid_options>
          <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
        </partition>
<!-- /dev/md1  = swap -->
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <mount>swap</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">1</partition_nr>
          <raid_options>
            <raid_type>raid1</raid_type>
          </raid_options>
        </partition>
<!-- /dev/md2  = /soft3 -->
        <partition>
          <filesystem config:type="symbol">xfs</filesystem>
          <format config:type="boolean">false</format>
          <create config:type="boolean">false</create>
          <mount>/soft3</mount>
          <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
          <partition_nr config:type="integer">2</partition_nr>
          <raid_options>
            <raid_type>raid1</raid_type>
          </raid_options>
        </partition>
      </partitions>
    <use>none</use>
    </drive>
Maybe it's the use directive, but I can't see the possible values 
documented anywhere.
I suppose autoyast may not like partitions with a partition_id of 0 or 
something...
Thanks
Jeremy

Re: [suse-autoinstall] autoyast tries to install into memory disk

Anas Nashif