On 20/09/12 15:00, Lamar Owen wrote:
Hmm, I seem to remember some issues around the partitioning under F12 on SPARC. It was recommended, best I can recall, that you let the installer autopartition; anything else is very unstable and will likely crash anaconda.
Once installed you can set up partitions, move LVM around (I did that with our E6500, taking the defaults at first onto a single drive, and then moving the physical volume (with the LVM tools) to a software RAID5. Worked fine.) set up RAID, or whatever else. But it was important, IIRC, to take the defaults during installation. There is a set of posts in the archives about the installer caveats, and I think it's on the F12Beta page on Fedoraproject.org, or at least it used to be.
I have my own private archive of messages like that to this mailing list, and I can repost if mecessary.
Mmm auto partitioning works but replace doesn't because for whatever
reason it ignores anaconda/platform.py where _disklabel_types = ['sun']
is set for the sparc platform and decides the disk should be using a
msdos label instead, so the install goes along fine since linux is able
to handle both label types, at the end after you reboot, OBP looks for a
sun label disk and finds msdos garbage which it promptly chokes on.
I think the logic is buried in storage/device.py and
storage/partitioning.py.
Anaconda - a cruel and unusual punishment to make anyone do.
Phil
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Ah, I think I see it now.