Bug 746378

anaconda 16.22 still has this bug. Tested as:

- manually partitioned disks, (sda1=500MB/fd00 type, sda2=4GB/8200 type, sda3=sda4=32GB/fd00 type, sda5=300GB/fd00 type, sda6=600GB/fd00 type; sdb divided exactly just like sda.

- installed F14 i386: md0=raid1(sda1,sdb1) in /boot, md1=raid1(sda3,sdb3) in /,
md2=raid1(sda4,sdb4) in /mnt/os2, md3=raid1(sda5,sdb5) in /home, md4=raid1(sda6,sdb6) in /mnt/data.
Network installation, NFS sources, installation without problems.

- then F16 i386 installation, same as F14 with the exception of md1 mounted at /mnt/os1 and md2 mounted at root /, without formatting any partition.

1) Anaconda was not switching to X (black screen), but "xdriver=vesa nomodeset" did trick - this was not necessary with F14. First little oops

2)Anaconda for some reason was enforcing format / fs (as ext4, although in was already formatted as ext4. But I think it isn't big problem).
In ithis point, when clicking "Next" button, anaconda again stop with:
"You have not created a bootloader stage1 target device"

As possibility install to existing partitions is quite important to me, i hope F17 (or other distros) will have not this inconceivable bugs.

A BIOS Boot partition of size 1MB is required to boot from GPT-labeled disks on BIOS hardware in Fedora 16. If your disk is full you could resize one of your existing partitions to make room for the new partition.

Also, anaconda does require that you reformat the root filesystem during installation to ensure that it is newly created.

Hello David, can You please slightly explain this, or give some explanation links? I think in F15- Grub1 stage1 was installed in DOS MBR (GPT with protective DOS MBR) and stage 1.5 could be without problem installed next to primary GPT header in sectors 36-2047, as gdisk (maybe other partitioning tools too) create first partition with start sector 2048. Thus extra 1MB partition isn't necessary.
It is some Grub2 requirement? Or is this 1MB partition required, because this  up to 2047 sector reservation is non-standard and thus not guaranted? Which type should this 1 MB partition be? F16 installation guide (by that time draft) not mention nohing about this requirement.

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