[sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 11 SP3 Beta4 available

[Guang Su]

Hi,

No, there's only 1 HDD on the system (DELL PowerEdge R720). The below sample is coming from 2 server. One running SP2 and the other one running SP3 beta 4. Both installation were done with PXe installation using autoyast. Does SD card or USB flash drive consider as 2nd disk?

Here's the auotyoast profile section for partition, only 2 partitions marked as primary, the reset should be logical in an extended partition.
    <partitioning config:type="list">
      <drive>
        <device>DRIVE_DEVICE</device>
        <initialize config:type="boolean">true</initialize>
        <partitions config:type="list">
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <label>boot</label>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/boot</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">label</mountby>
            <noauto config:type="boolean">false</noauto>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>128MB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <fstopt>noauto,noatime</fstopt>
            <label>image</label>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/mnt/image</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">label</mountby>
            <noauto config:type="boolean">true</noauto>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <partition_type>primary</partition_type>
            <size>10GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">swap</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <label>swapspace</label>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>swap</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">label</mountby>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">130</partition_id>
            <size>8GB</size>
          </partition>
          <partition>
            <filesystem config:type="symbol">ext3</filesystem>
            <format config:type="boolean">true</format>
            <label>root</label>
            <loop_fs config:type="boolean">false</loop_fs>
            <mount>/</mount>
            <mountby config:type="symbol">label</mountby>
            <noauto config:type="boolean">false</noauto>
            <partition_id config:type="integer">131</partition_id>
            <size>max</size>
          </partition>
        </partitions>
        <use>all</use>
      </drive>
    </partitioning>

Thanks

--Guang

-----Original Message-----
From: sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com [mailto:sles-beta-bounces at lists.suse.com] On Behalf Of Kai Dupke
Sent: Monday, April 15, 2013 1:42 AM
To: sles-beta at lists.suse.com
Subject: Re: [sles-beta] [ANNOUNCE] SLES 11 SP3 Beta4 available

On 04/11/2013 06:34 PM, Guang Su wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I ran into a strange issue with AutoYaST installation. When using PXE 
> installation with autoyast profile, the partition layout is not same 
> comparing to SP2. It appears the autoyast partitioning does not create 
> the extended partition. The same profile is used for installation on 
> both SP2 and SP3 beta 4
> 
> on SP2
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *        2048      272383      135168   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2          272384    21254143    10490880   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3        21254144   570949631   274847744    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5        21256192    33849343     6296576   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda6        33851392   570918911   268533760   83  Linux
> 
> on SP3 beta 4
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *        2048      272383      135168   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2          272384    21254143    10490880   83  Linux
> /dev/sda3        21254144    40130559     9438208   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/sda4        40130560  1754529791   857199616   83  Linux

Do you use different disks?

How does the autoyast profile for the disks looks like?

Might be the second disk layout is GPT based, parted shows the partition table type.

greetings
Kai Dupke
Senior Product Manager
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