>>> On 12/10/2010 at 02:18 PM, Daniel Tate <[email protected]> wrote: > I am having trouble getting autoyast to work on 11SP2.
I'm assuming you actually mean SLES11 SP1. > The problem > occurs sometime during the disk buildout. It insists it cannot build a > LVM with that size - i am using as a template the .xml dropped by the > first system i built. I have already dropped the <SIZE> portion > significantly; so that's not it. each time it goes through the > install, i get an inital message of no disks found. That's been annoying me for some time, but it doesn't actually cause any problems. Apparently the order that things get executed by AutoYaST is such that when it first looks for storage devices, they aren't available yet, and the logic is such that this isn't likely to get fixed soon. >Then it formats > the DASDs, then fails with "Error: a logical volume with the requested > size could not be created". This is getting to be infuriating, so any > assistance that anyone can render would be appreciated. > > I would even accept a way for it to let me build the disks manually, > but do everything else automatically - that's better than nothing. -snip- This is a bug that's been in AutoYaST forever on System z. However, it only surfaced with SLES11, for whatever reason. If you modify the XML file to use /dev/disk/by-path/ identifiers instead of /dev/dasd?, then you should be all set. I just verified the fix for this with the developers, and it will hopefully be showing up in SLES10 SP4 and the next service pack of SLES11. > I have hundreds of servers to build.. if i can't autoyast, i'm in a > lot of trouble.. That's good to hear. :) Hopefully this will get you on your way. Mark Post ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
