Bug 633488

Summary:	[6.1 FEAT] Enhance installer to allow /boot in LVM/multipath
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	6.1	CC:	jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, rwilliam, sbest
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature
Target Release:	6.1
Hardware:	s390x
OS:	All
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Description IBM Bug Proxy 2010-09-13 20:12:55 UTC

1. Feature Overview:
Feature Id: [67030]
a. Name of Feature: [6.1 FEAT] Enhance installer to allow /boot in LVM/multipath
b. Feature Description
This feature request to enhance the installer so that the /boot partition can be mutipathed/LVM (at
least for System z, since zipl, the system z loader, supports it), which currently it is not allowed
by the distributor installer code.

2. Feature Details:
Sponsor: LTC zSeries BOE
Architectures:
  zSeries - 64 native, 

Arch Specificity: both
Affects Kernel Modules: Field does not exist
Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable
Category: other
Request Type: Installer - Enhancement from Distributor
d. Upstream Acceptance: In Progress
Sponsor Priority P1
f. Severity: ship issue
IBM Confidential: No
Code Contribution: 3rd party code
g. Component Version Target:---

3. Business Case
This feature will increase the RAS capabilities of Linux on System z to start the system in a
multipath environment.

4. Primary contact at Red Hat:
John Jarvis jjarvis

5. Primary contacts at Partner:
Project Management Contact:
Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com

Technical contact(s):
Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2010-10-01 19:35:48 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 618376 ***

Comment 3 John Jarvis 2010-10-20 13:53:07 UTC

removing from IBM tracker since BZ 618376 is tracking this.