Re: SoftwareRAID on GPT disks

Lukas Puzik / myLoc managed IT AG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.autoinstall
Organization myLoc managed IT AG
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
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Hi Thomas,

thanks for your message. I've attached the desired logs and control
file to this mail. I've noticed during the successfull installation
without SoftwareRAID today, that autoyast actually doesn't set
bios_grub, it only creates the first partition with an offset of
1049kB in both cases. I've probably mixed it up with another installation.

I've also performed an installation with SoftwareRAID and made a
screenshot of a parted print after the first error message. I don't
understand why the swap partition will be set up with boot and
legacy_boot flags.

Best regards,
Lukas Puzik

Am 16.09.2013 14:16, schrieb Thomas Fehr:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, Lukas Puzik / myLoc managed IT AG wrote:
> 
>> Hello!
>> 
>> I'm fighting for a week with autoyast and a SoftwareRAID
>> partitoning on non-EFI servers with two 3-4 TB disks. I've
>> figured out, that autoyast successfully applies my profile to the
>> servers, as long as I don't set up a SoftwareRAID. Means, that
>> autoyast creates automatically a bios_grub partition and installs
>> GRUB2 correctly, the server is able to boot from a 2.7 TB root
>> partiton. I don't need to do anything.
> 
> If possible, I would be interested to see complete content of 
> /var/log/YaST2 and autoyast control file for both cases (the
> successful one without SoftwareRAID and the unsuccessful one with
> SoftwareRAID) see what is going on.
> 
> So far I cannot see how autoyast would automatically create a 
> bios_grub partition. Since bios_grub stuff is fairly new it could 
> very well be possible that there are bugs lurking in this area.
> 
>> As soon as I'm using a SoftwareRAID partitioning, autoyast
>> doesn't create the above mentioned bios_grub partition and
>> bootlader instalation fails, the operating system isn't bootable.
>> It's possible to workaround this issue by manually creating the
>> bios_grub partiton in the partitioning context and to manually
>> enabling bios_grub to this partiton with parted in
>> postpartitioning-scripts, nevertheless GRUB2 will show the same
>> error messages as before, which can't be timed out using error
>> context. But, operating system will boot up correctly from a 2.7
>> TB md device.
> 
> ...
> 
>> As I need a fully unattended installation for a SoftwareRAID
>> sceanrio, I'm hoping for a clean solution or a tip how to avoid
>> bootloader context error messages, so no user interaction is
>> needed. In fact other distributions like CentOS 6, Debian 7.0 and
>> Ubuntu 12.04 don't show this issue, so I think, that this is a
>> bug or limitation, not a general issue.
> 
> 
> Tschuess, Thomas Fehr
> 
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