Dear List (and Uwe), I am using openSUSE 10.2. When I try to do an autoyast install I get an error dialog when the program tries to set the type of the extended partition: Error: Failure occurred during the following action: Setting type of partition /dev/sda3 to F System error code was: -1012 And the install quits. It leaves the MBR corrupt with an invalid partition type so subsequent autoinstalls don't work (parted says it can't use the format and refuses to create partitions etc.) Does anyone know a way around this? Here is my partitioning XML which I got from 'clone this system for autoyast' on a successful manual install of the same machine. All I have changed is the <use>1,2,3 etc</use> to <use>all</use>: <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> <device>/dev/md</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>/</mount> 0 false raid1 </partition> <partition> system 1 false raid1 </partition> <partition> scratch 2 false raid1 </partition> </partitions> <use>all</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/scratch</device> <lvm2 config:type="boolean">true</lvm2> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> scratch <mount>/local/scratch</mount> <size>32212254720</size> </partition> </partitions> <pesize>4M</pesize> <type config:type="symbol">CT_LVM</type> <use>all</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sda</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> 253 2 primary /dev/md0 <size>21476205568</size> </partition> <partition> 131 3 primary <size>21476205568</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> 130 5 <size>2154990592</size> </partition> <partition> 253 6 /dev/md1 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 7 /dev/md2 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 8 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 9 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 10 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 11 <size>38724585472</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/sdb</device> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> 253 2 primary /dev/md0 <size>21476205568</size> </partition> <partition> 131 3 primary <size>21476205568</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> <mount>swap</mount> 130 5 <size>2154990592</size> </partition> <partition> 253 6 /dev/md1 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 7 /dev/md2 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 8 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 9 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 10 <size>42952379392</size> </partition> <partition> 253 11 <size>38724585472</size> </partition> </partitions> <use>2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11</use> </drive> <drive> <device>/dev/system</device> <lvm2 config:type="boolean">true</lvm2> <partitions config:type="list"> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> tmp <mount>/tmp</mount> <size>10737418240</size> </partition> <partition> <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem> <format config:type="boolean">true</format> var <mount>/var</mount> <size>8053063680</size> </partition> </partitions> <pesize>4M</pesize> <type config:type="symbol">CT_LVM</type> <use>all</use> </drive> </partitioning> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org