Andreas, I was interested in your attempt to automate a raid configuration, so I pasted your partitioning info into a working XML file, and I used autoyast DTD verification on it. It yielded the following errors (on SLES9). I don't know -- perhaps these are the source of your problem if the DTD doesn't know about the raid_options element???: ------------- from autoyast profile validator ---------- /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:98: element raid_options: validity error : No declaration for element raid_options </raid_options> ^ /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:99: element partition: validity error : Element partition content does not follow the DTD, expecting (create | crypt | crypt_fs | crypt_key | filesystem | format | fs_options | fstopt | grow | label | loop_fs | lv_name | lvm_group | maxsize | mount | mountby | noauto | partition_id | partition_nr | partition_type | raid_name | raid_type | region | size)*, got (filesystem format mount partition_id partition_nr raid_options ) </partition> ^ /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:109: element raid_options: validity error : No declaration for element raid_options </raid_options> ^ /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:110: element partition: validity error : Element partition content does not follow the DTD, expecting (create | crypt | crypt_fs | crypt_key | filesystem | format | fs_options | fstopt | grow | label | loop_fs | lv_name | lvm_group | maxsize | mount | mountby | noauto | partition_id | partition_nr | partition_type | raid_name | raid_type | region | size)*, got (format mount partition_id partition_nr raid_options ) </partition> ^ /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:118: element raid_options: validity error : No declaration for element raid_options </raid_options> ^ /tmp/YaST2-25286-dOy79M/valid.xml:119: element partition: validity error : Element partition content does not follow the DTD, expecting (create | crypt | crypt_fs | crypt_key | filesystem | format | fs_options | fstopt | grow | label | loop_fs | lv_name | lvm_group | maxsize | mount | mountby | noauto | partition_id | partition_nr | partition_type | raid_name | raid_type | region | size)*, got (format partition_nr raid_options ) </partition> ^ -----Original Message----- From: "Andreas Müller" [mailto:andreas.mueller66@web.de] Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 2:10 AM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] LV on MD I try to configure LV's on a softwareraid (md) of two ata-disks in autoyast. On installation apears an error, 'md device is not known'. I think my configuration is right. If I try it on a running system in yast it works. <partitioning config:type="list"> <drive> . . .