Mark, it's sent. Thanks for the help. Once the solution is found, I will post the relevent deails here just in case someone has a similar issue.
we got around the issue on one server via this (from our main mainfame guy) but it did not get rid of the manual intervention clicking "Cancel", nor did it fix other servers. It appears that Parallel Access Volumes (PAV) is the issue. When systems are built, the volume needs to be formatted from a z/VM perspective on the BASE volume and not the PAV. I ensured that the PAV was offline, reformatted just Cylinder 0 (LABEL) and asked you to retry. The PAV can be brought online after the Linux formatting is complete. On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Mark Post <mp...@novell.com> wrote: >>>> On 12/17/2010 at 01:08 PM, Daniel Tate <daniel.t...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I have removed the troublesome swap VDISK from the install, but we are >> running into problems getting the disks to autoformat. I know >> there's a lot of fluff in this; could that be the problem? I want >> the install to go through, all the way, without manual intervention. >> At this point a fresh system gets to the format section. It stops, >> asks if i want to format each disk individually. I cancel. This is >> problem one. Problem two is that the disks sometimes never begin >> their dasd formatting - the screen appears, but no %age or or progress >> bar appears - just the blank area where the bar should be. > > This isn't the really relevant part of the autoinst.xml file. That comes > further down in the partitioning section. Send me your entire XML file > off-list and I'll take a look at it. > > Also, you may want to let us know what version of SLES this applies to. > Things do change between releases. > > > Mark Post > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu 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/
