Bug 588493

Created attachment 411110 [details]
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I have a case jlaska thinks is similar.

1. Write the F13 TC1 netinst.iso to a USB stick with livecd-iso-to-disk (to test #568343)
2. Boot the installer and proceed.
3. At disks-to-be-involved stage, check the system hard disk (you can't uncheck the USB stick, so both are checked as you proceed).
4. At the 'Data Storage Devices' / 'Install Target Devices' selection stage, note that you cannot set the system hard disk as the Boot device, whether you add only the system disk to the 'Install Target Devices' set, or both the system disk and the USB stick. Only the USB stick can have the 'Boot' radio button clicked. If you try to proceed with only the system hard disk in the 'Install Target Devices' set, anaconda refuses as nothing has 'Boot' clicked.

I can't proceed further in the install with both devices selected and the USB stick set to 'Boot', and see what ultimately happens, as I can't really install anything to the hard disk in the test system. Sorry.



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Not sure whether the above is serious enough to make this a blocker...

Note that this seems specific to the netinst.iso-written-to-USB-stick scenario; if I boot from a normally-burned DVD of the full DVD ISO, with the USB stick connected, and select both the USB stick and the system hard disk as storage devices, I don't hit the bug: at the 'DSD' / 'ITD' stage I *can* set the system hard disk as the boot device. Haven't tested with netinst.iso-written-to-DVD, but I rather suspect it'd work.

Have you actually tried to click on the radio button in the selection ?

The radio button gets automatically set to the 1st boot device, which when booting of a usb stick is the usb stick, if you've filtered out the usb stick then we will use the next first boot device as indicated by the BIOS. It could be the BIOS does not provide EDD info for the raid set when booting from usb stick and then we will determine which is the 1st boot device by sorting by name. So the iscsi disk comes first.

You can however change the default selection by clicking the radio button.

(In reply to comment #4)
> Have you actually tried to click on the radio button in the selection ?
> <snip>
> You can however change the default selection by clicking the radio button.    

As noted in comment#0, "I'm not able to select the local BIOS RAID device as my boot device."  The radio button is not selectable for some reason.

impact:

<hansg> Any time we get the boot disk wrong (which we do as we use heuristics) and any time the user does not want to select what we think will be the  boot disk for installation the user looses

makes it clearly a blocker.



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This is fixed in anaconda-13.40-1, moving to modified.

Confirmed fix using anaconda-13.39-1 + http://people.fedoraproject.org/~jwrdegoede/f13-updates.img

We should now be able to confirm that this bug is fixed using the images here:

http://alt.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/13.0505/Fedora/i386/os/images/

if we have not yet confirmed the fix, can anyone able to reproduce this bug please test with one of those images and check that the bug is fixed? Thanks.

Confirmed fix using vmlinuz, initrd.img and install.img from the URL in comment#9.

I confirm that this works with the 0505 image in my situation too.