Carlos E. R. wrote:
The Monday 2008-05-26 at 18:02 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Oh well. I tried it (device mapper for more than 16 partitions) very quickly and it worked just fine. I can't see any immediate reason why it couldn't be supported at installation time - the installation system already uses the devicemapper for various support.
I haven't seen a document explaining it. Is it supported by Yast installer/updater?
Not that I know of - but when device-mapper is supported (for builtin/fake RAID for instance), it seems like a minor thing to also support >15 partitions in the same way.
* Bug 305095 - CD-Installation fails when partitions >15 are involved Opened: 2007-08-27 18:23 MDT Last modified: 2007-09-18 09:50:59 MDT
- use hwprobe=-modules.pata - #9: proposes using dm_linear, (this) "will invoke kpartx which in turn will generate device-mapper tables for all partitions on that drive" - activate_dm_linear - #32 says: "the activate_dm_linear support does not work as documented. This needs some more work for 11.0." (AJ).
Sounds like something is already under way here. /Per Jessen, Zürich -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org