Bug 693132

Summary:	DASD range for SCSI only not described in help
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	David Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	6.1	CC:	balkov, hamzy, jjarvis, jkachuck, mgrf
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Reopened
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	s390x
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:
Clones:	707040 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-09-15 19:16:46 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Bug Depends On:	707040
Bug Blocks:	684953, 705163

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2011-04-02 21:51:02 UTC

Description of problem:

During the initial installation phase the help text for question concerning DASD range does not
describe what needs to be done for a SCSI only installation.

if help is provided in case of SCSI installation it is very useful for user.

1-Server architecture(s) -Z.
2. Server type -s390x
3.No there is not any Other components involved (ixgbe/java/emulex/etc.).
4.This server have no the latest GA firmware.
5. Has the problem been shown to occur on more than one system?yes
6. "sosreport" -not required for this bug because this bug is documentation error.
7. RHEL6.0 snap7 latest official distro which this bug has been seen
8-Steps to Reproduce:
1.In initial installation phase.
2.In DASD information just ask the question for help

Log:-
DASD range (e.g. 200-203,205 or ? for help). Default is autoprobing:

------- Comment #13503703 from balkov at 2010/12/15 13:30:09 EST -------
Will submit for RHEL 6.1 documentation

------- Comment from Alkov, Benjamin at 2011-01-19T17:16:36Z -------
IBM;
How would you like to see this text changed?

At present, linuxrc offers following choice for DASD information -
DASD range (e.g. 200-203,205 or ? for help). Default is autoprobing:

Here if User presses ? for help , it shows
Help text for DASD range:
Comma separated list of ranges of device bus IDs.
Default is autoprobing (not recommended).
Examples would be: 200-203 or 200,201,202,203 or 0.0.0200-0.0.0203,0.0.0205

In the Help text it would be useful to add one more line in the end like -

Enter "none" for SCSI only installation.

This will give user a clue that if he is going to install only on SCSI then he
should enter text "none" When liuxrc asks for DASD range.

Comment 4 David Cantrell 2011-05-23 19:50:01 UTC

New and extended product functionality as well as new features for this component must be implemented by IBM and accepted upstream before consideration for a RHEL backport can be made.  For your convenience, this bug has been cloned to the same component under Fedora, which serves as the upstream development area for RHEL.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2011-05-23 19:54:59 UTC

Development Management has reviewed and declined this request.  You may appeal
this decision by reopening this request.

Comment 6 Georg Markgraf 2011-06-08 10:18:17 UTC

Appeal this decision -> re-open this request

Comment 7 David Cantrell 2011-06-08 15:23:07 UTC

See comment #4.  Bug #707040 exists to track the upstream contributions for this feature request.

Comment 8 Georg Markgraf 2011-06-10 15:05:58 UTC

The Installer is the value-added code from Red Hat.
  - Red Hat have to maintain this differentiator for RHEL
  - System z cannot take ownership for the installer
For sure System z will offer help like in the past. 

If you want to track this via Fedora - fine but that makes no difference 

Although its obvious I re-call
  - it is very important that the installer get improved for our customers

Comment 9 John Jarvis 2011-09-15 19:16:46 UTC

Closing as NOTABUG.  This feature needs to be implemented in Fedora before it
will be consider for RHEL inclusion.