Hi.
While setting up a SCSI harddisk, I came across one problem: Why can't I
set up three (3) primary partitions, plus any other number of logical
ones?
Searching through setup_harddisks I found the following line:
($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
Is there anything wrong with a SCSI harddisk having three primary
partitions? Appling the following patch solves the problem (I think):
--- cut ---
--- /usr/lib/fai/sbin/setup_harddisks Wed May 3 08:41:56 2000
+++ /usr/lib/fai/nfsroot/sbin/setup_harddisks Fri Jun 9 23:11:17 2000
@@ -408,7 +408,7 @@
($MPPrimary{$extmp} eq "yes") && ($NoMoreLogicals = 1);
$MPPrimary{$mountpoint} = "yes";
$PrimPartNo++;
- ($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
+ #($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
($PrimPartNo >4 ) && die "ERROR: Too much primary partitions (max
4).".
" All logicals together need one primary too.\n";
$MountpointPart{$mountpoint} = "$disk$PrimPartNo";
@@ -429,7 +429,7 @@
$MPMaxSize{$extmp} = 0;
$MPID{$extmp} = 5;
$PrimPartNo++;
- ($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
+ #($PrimPartNo == 3) && ($disk =~ /^sd/) && ($PrimPartNo++);
($PrimPartNo >4 )
&& die "ERROR: too much primary partitions (max 4).".
" All logicals together need one primary too.\n";
@@ -438,6 +438,7 @@
}
($options =~ /\bboot\b/i) && die "ERROR: line $a, only primary
partitions can be bootable.\n";
}
+print $command, "\t", $PrimPartNo, "\t", $LogPartNo, "\n";
($DiskMountpoint{$disk} =~ /\b$mountpoint\b/)
&& die "ERROR in config file line $a, Mountpoint redefined:
$mountpoint\n$line\n";
$DiskMountpoints{$disk} .= " $mountpoint";
--- cut ---
Thanks.
Pedro Guerreiro
