[opensuse-autoinstall] AY changes types of existing partitions :-(
Hi,
in SLES 11 I'm using e.g. this profile for partitioning:
<partitioning config:type="list">
<drive>
<device>/dev/sda</device>
<partitions config:type="list">
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">vfat</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
<mount>/dos</mount>
On Thursday 09 April 2009 16:10:50 Frank Steiner wrote:
The partition existed already and had id=7 (HPFS/NTFS). When installing, AY didn't recreate any partititions, just formatted some as it was told to.
But after the installation, the id of /dev/sda1 was "83" instead of "7", preventing Windows XP from booting.
have you tried to use the
Uwe Gansert wrote
have you tried to use the
7 element?
No, because not all our Windows partitions have type 7, so I just left that out and AY so far never touched them. Is it an intended behaviour to change the id for an existing "non-create/non-format" partition if partition_id is not given? I don't see any sense in changing the partition id of an existing partition if AY isn't told to change it or (re)create the partition. So I vote for reverting the behaviour to SLES10 SP2... cu, Frank -- 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. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 12:55:42 Frank Steiner wrote:
Is it an intended behaviour to change the id for an existing "non-create/non-format" partition if partition_id is not given?
not really intended in a way like "I wanted it so" :) It looks like a sideeffect of some changes in the yast2 partitioning code. Since I never guaranteed how the partition id is handled if not configured in the profile, that's not really a bug but your suggestion to keep the old id makes sense. I have "fixed" that today for 11.2
So I vote for reverting the behaviour to SLES10 SP2...
accepted ;) -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
Uwe Gansert wrote
So I vote for reverting the behaviour to SLES10 SP2...
accepted ;)
Thanks :-) I will try to get the id into our profiles anyway, just to be sure. Any chance of getting a driverupdate for SLES11 for this fix? cu, Frank -- 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. * -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
On Tuesday 14 April 2009 17:38:04 Frank Steiner wrote:
I will try to get the id into our profiles anyway, just to be sure. Any chance of getting a driverupdate for SLES11 for this fix?
maybe yes, but maybe later, when there are more fixes I can bundle. -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Business: http://www.suse.de/~ug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-autoinstall+help@opensuse.org
Frank Steiner wrote
I will try to get the id into our profiles anyway, just to be sure. Any chance of getting a driverupdate for SLES11 for this fix?
Now that I've done that, lilo.conf generation fails. AY now generates
a section for the Windows partition, too (which it didn't before), but
it is wrong:
other = /dev/sda1
###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
label = Windows
root
Thus, lilo fails due to the root line. The profile looks like:
<partition>
<create config:type="boolean">false</create>
<filesystem config:type="symbol">vfat</filesystem>
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
<fstopt>defaults</fstopt>
<mount>/dos</mount>
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