Bug 208394

Summary: installer doesn't accept valid partitioning scheme.
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: David Woodhouse <dwmw2>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
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Description David Woodhouse 2006-09-28 11:07:42 UTC 
fc6 install on pSeries with the following partitioning:

 - PReP boot
 - 1GiB swap
 - ext3 rootfs

The installer doesn't let me -- it says there's no boot partition close enough
to the beginning of the disk for OpenFirmware. That's not true -- the above
scheme would work fine.
Comment 1 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-28 14:52:37 UTC 
Per IBM (long ago, but nevertheless), the /boot bits need to be below 4G and so
anaconda enforces that.  It's easy to not have that check, but I'm not going to
pull it unless we are 110% sure that it won't break things.
Comment 2 David Woodhouse 2006-09-28 15:01:02 UTC 
OK, that makes a certain amount of sense -- but can we have the message tell us
that? (the 4GiB bit).
Comment 3 Jeremy Katz 2006-09-28 15:04:53 UTC 
Changing at this point breaks all the translations -- we can improve the message
post-fc6