Bug 458505
| Summary: | Rescue Mode errs "Duplicate Labels" with multiple GPT(EFI) drives | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | John Reiser <jreiser> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | cward | ||||
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| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2009-04-06 15:32:51 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
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Created attachment 313855 [details]
parted output on system with two such drives
Here's what the GNU partition management utility 'parted' shows for one system with two drives, each with GPT and EFI.
(1) The only reason we're checking for duplicate labels anymore is in case you have LABEL= in your /etc/fstab. So we can at least delay displaying that error message until you actually try to use the label. If you never use LABEL=, then there's no need to display any error. Pushed. (2) Hm, strange. I don't see anything that is obviously causing this. (3) The installer IS rescue mode, though. (4) Can you reproduce this with any other dialog boxes where the option is to exit the installer? (In reply to comment #2) > (1) ... So we can at least delay displaying that error > message until you actually try to use the label. ... Pushed. Does "pushed" mean it's being worked on for Fedora 10, or what? > (4) Can you reproduce this with any other dialog boxes where the option is to > exit the installer? The complaint about Duplicate Labels is the first dialog box in Rescue Mode that has an option to Exit Installer. I have not seen any other chances to Exit Installer. That means I pushed a fix to the git repo for anaconda, and in fact we have already rebuilt with it. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle. Changing version to '10'. More information and reason for this action is here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping Is this still an issue in F11 Beta? ~Attention~ This bug appears to pertain to an important F11 feature, EFI, which the Fedora Community will be testing in an upcoming Fedora Test Day. Your participation in the action would be greatly appreciated! More information: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA/Test_Days/2009-04-09 https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EFI Fixed as of Rescue mode on Fedora 11 Beta i386 DVD. |
Description of problem: Rescue Mode cannot deal with a system that has multiple harddrives with GUID Partition Table (GPT) and Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) boot partitions. The symptom is a nasty message "Duplicate Labels: Multiple devices on your system are labelled EFI. Labels across devices must be unique for your system to function properly. Please fix the problem and restart the installation process. [Exit Installer]" There are FOUR errors here: 1. Duplicate labels work just fine. Each of /dev/disk/{by-id,by-path,by-uuid} is an alternative to by-label. 2. The actual duplicated label is "EFI System Partition" so some code thinks that a space character terminates a label. 3. This is Rescue Mode, not the Installer. 4. Activating the only choice [Exit Installer] does not exit, but instead gives you a shell with the system in a semi-crippled state (mounts are only partially correct.) Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.4.1.24 How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. boot Rescue Mode from the netinst.iso CD-ROM on a system with multiple harddrives having GUID Partition Table and EFI boot partition. 2. 3. Actual results: As in Description above, "Duplicate Labels ... [Exit Installer]" Expected results: at most a Warning, not an Error; then continue successfully into the rest of Rescue Mode. Additional info: This is a likely case on an Apple Macintosh with Intel CPU and external harddrives connected via IEEE1394 (firewire) interface.