Mounting a previously made sw raid partition
Hello, I'm sorry if this is the wrong forum, but I'm having an issue with Autoyast that I can't explain. I have two disks, sda and sdb. I am partitioning them and making a software RAID, md0 and md1. md0 (which is /)'s entry in Autoyast says: <format config:type="boolean">true</format> and it works fine. For md1 (which is /var) I'd like it not to format the partition, so I set it to <format config:type="boolean">false</format> It goes through the installer, but when I boot into the OS, it doesn't mount the partition. If I log in and run "mount -a", it mounts fine. I've tried changing the false to true, and if I do that, everything works fine- so there's something involved in telling Autoyast not to format the raid unit that keeps it from mounting properly. Since running mount manually works, it would seem that the raid device is fine, but it never mounts during the normal proces. Looking at /etc/fstab shows a line for /var that's good- with default mount options and 1 for dump, and 2 for passno. I'm really unsure of what could be the problem, but since the difference starts with autoyast, I'm starting here. Any help would be appreciated, - Serge
On Monday 05 June 2006 17:31, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
For md1 (which is /var) I'd like it not to format the partition, so I set it to
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
It goes through the installer, but when I boot into the OS, it doesn't mount the partition. If I log in and run "mount -a", it mounts fine.
SUSE Linux version? -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de, Tel: +49-(0)911-74053-0, Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de
Uwe Gansert wrote:
On Monday 05 June 2006 17:31, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
For md1 (which is /var) I'd like it not to format the partition, so I set it to
<format config:type="boolean">false</format>
It goes through the installer, but when I boot into the OS, it doesn't mount the partition. If I log in and run "mount -a", it mounts fine.
SUSE Linux version?
SLES 9. This is a large installation and SLES 10 isn't out yet. I can also provide the actual XML but I didn't want to flood the list. - Serge Wroclawski
On Saturday 10 June 2006 05:27, Serge Wroclawski wrote:
It goes through the installer, but when I boot into the OS, it doesn't mount the partition. If I log in and run "mount -a", it mounts fine.
SUSE Linux version?
SLES 9.
I can also provide the actual XML but I didn't want to flood the list.
can you use scripts to fix the mounting problem instead? I have problems to reproduce it here and while testing your scenario, I think I found a bug in SLES10 :( -- ciao, Uwe Gansert Uwe Gansert, Server Technologies Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany e-mail: uwe.gansert@suse.de Fax: +49-(0)911-74053-476, Web: http://www.suse.de/~ug
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