I have two identical five-disk SCSI systems, the first installed manually, the
second I am installing via autoyast with a reference profile (including
partitions) generated from the first machine.
The hard drives are partitioned identically, three partitions, first 512MB,
second 8GB, third ~59GB. I use the first as swap on all 5, the second partition
on the first two drives RAID1 under md0, with the third partition of all drives
as RAID5. This leaves the second partition on drives 3,4,5 unused.
When the autoinstall tries to partition the drives, it reverses the order of the
2nd and 3rd partitions on drives 3,4,5 (sdc,d,e{2,3}), giving the large third
partition to the "unused" partition ( mounted by yast2 as /data{1,2,3} ) and
confusing the RAID5 set.
The software raid table is below from system #1, as is the partitioning section
from the ref profile.
Any pointers would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Vernon
# autogenerated /etc/raidtab by YaST2
raiddev /dev/md0
raid-level 1
nr-raid-disks 2
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
chunk-size 4
device /dev/sda2
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb2
raid-disk 1
raiddev /dev/md1
raid-level 5
nr-raid-disks 5
nr-spare-disks 0
persistent-superblock 1
parity-algorithm left-symmetric
chunk-size 128
device /dev/sda3
raid-disk 0
device /dev/sdb3
raid-disk 1
device /dev/sdc3
raid-disk 2
device /dev/sdd3
raid-disk 3
device /dev/sde3
raid-disk 4
------------------------------------------------------
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