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

[Matthias G. Eckermann]

On 2013-04-15 T 15:50 +0000 Guang Su wrote:
 
> 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?

Most probably yes. Please make sure that you compares
the _exact_ same hardware configuration.

so long -
	MgE

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> -----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
> Server Product Line
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