Jeffrey, The defect 4233 fix is now in source. Custom slices are once again possible.
However, the correct behavior has not been documented. Yesterday, I sent a message to caiman-discuss with the goal of reaching consensus about how it should work: Subject: Review requested: defining AI VTOC slice and fdisk partition management through AI manifest Once we can make some decisions about this, I will document it, code changes, and inform you about the status. Of course, input from you on the subject would be valued. William Schumann Jeffrey, You are correct about how it it supposed to behave. Currently, slice editing through the AI engine manifest is ignored as a side effect of defect 4233. It seems probable that this will not be fixed for the November release as it is not critical to LiveCD, but will be addressed soon afterwards. William jeffrey huang wrote: > Hi, William, > > I has following manifest to create partition and slice, slice size is > half of the partition: > > <ai_manifest name="slice_04_u20"> > <ai_target_device> > <target_device_name>c2t1d0</target_device_name> > <target_device_use_solaris_partition>false</target_device_use_solaris_partition> > <target_device_overwrite_root_zfs_pool>true</target_device_overwrite_root_zfs_pool> > </ai_target_device> > <ai_device_partitioning> > <partition_action>create</partition_action> > <partition_number>1</partition_number> > <partition_start_sector>1</partition_start_sector> > <partition_size>41943040</partition_size> > <partition_type>191</partition_type> > </ai_device_partitioning> > <ai_device_vtoc_slices> > <slice_action>create</slice_action> > <slice_number>0</slice_number> > <slice_size>20480000</slice_size> > </ai_device_vtoc_slices> > <ai_pkg_repo_default_authority> > <main url="http://10.13.28.32:9000"; authname="colorsword.prc"/> > <mirror url=""/> > </ai_pkg_repo_default_authority> > <ai_packages> > <package_name>SUNWapch22</package_name> > </ai_packages> > </ai_manifest> > But AI will create a slice 0 which using whole partition. So does my manifest > correct? Or it is designed feature? > Slice list after auto-installer, slice 0 using the whole disk, not the size I > wanted: > > partition> p > Current partition table (original): > Total disk cylinders available: 2608 + 2 (reserved cylinders) > > Part Tag Flag Cylinders Size Blocks > 0 root wm 1 - 2607 19.97GB (2607/0/0) 41881455 > 1 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 2 backup wu 0 - 2607 19.98GB (2608/0/0) 41897520 > 3 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 4 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 5 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 6 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 7 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > 8 boot wu 0 - 0 7.84MB (1/0/0) 16065 > 9 unassigned wm 0 0 (0/0/0) 0 > > -- > Great Thanks & Best Regards > > --- > Jeffrey Huang SWAN: x51683, Ext: 0086-10-62673683 > Solaris QE Group Email: jeffrey.huang at sun.com > China Engineering & Research Institute, Sun Microsystems > 7/F Chuang Xin Plaza, Tsinghua Science Park, Beijing China > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss >
