SuSE AutoYaST Troubleshooting
AutoYaST Partition Size Problem
- On SLES 9.x, the size of the partitions in the AutoYaST xml script must be in bytes, however in v10.x, it is in megabytes, and has the printf format "%dM". If you come accross an error in SLES 9.X builds such as...
Error A logical volume with the requested size could not be created
...this is what you should look at. Here is a screenshot...
Why can't I create a reiserfs Partition?
Well, SuSE decided to call reiserfs, reiser instead.
Luckily, xfs is not called x.
One thing I can think of for this is the reiser4 filesystem - note that it is no longer called reiserfs4.
After AutoYaST stops at GRUB on first reboot after installation
This problem is described in #69 - The MBR is corrupted and the installer fails to fix it. You need to boot with a rescue image and zero out the relevant chunk of disk...
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=512 count=2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda4 bs=512 count=2 dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda5 bs=512 count=2
...your disc of choice may be different to /dev/sda used in this example, but you get the drift.
