On Tue, 25 May 2004, Peter Schwenk wrote:
While yast is running, it looks like it is trying to partition, format, and mount the partitions, but it isn't successful.
For what its worth, I ran into an almost identical problem this afternoon with SuSE 9.1. I'm using: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize> <use>all</use> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <mount>/</mount> <size>2g</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> </partition> <partition> <mount>swap</mount> <size>2gb</size> </partition> <partition> <mount>/var</mount> <size>2g</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> </partition> <partition> <mount>/spool</mount> <size>max</size> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> </partition> </partitions> </drive> </partitioning> This configuration seems to works without any problems on 9.0. The partitioning scheme generates a correct partition table under 9.1: /dev/sda1 * 1 22337 179421921 5 Extended /dev/sda5 1 262 2104452 83 Linux /dev/sda6 263 524 2104483+ 82 Linux swap /dev/sda7 525 786 2104483+ 83 Linux /dev/sda8 787 22337 173108376 83 Linux But then bails out with the error message: "Could not format /dev/sda8. You can continue if you know what you are doing, but, to prevent damage to you filesystem it is safer to cancel and reboot." As far as I can tell, the problem appears to be that something is failing to create the device special file for /dev/sda8 (sda5, sda6 and sda7 are all created without problems). If I switch to a tty with a shell prompt and run the following by hand: mknod /dev/sda8 b 8 8 and then hit "retry" within YaST, everything works just fine. I also found that if I boot into a rescue environment and clear out the partition table by hand using fdisk, the following AutoYaST run works without problems. -- David Carter Email: David.Carter@ucs.cam.ac.uk University Computing Service, Phone: (01223) 334502 New Museums Site, Pembroke Street, Fax: (01223) 334679 Cambridge UK. CB2 3QH.