| Summary: | Anaconda fails on uninitialized disk | ||||||||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Albert Flügel <albert.fluegel> | ||||||||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||||||||
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> | ||||||||||
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |||||||||||
| Priority: | unspecified | ||||||||||||
| Version: | 16 | CC: | anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora | ||||||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||||||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||||||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||||||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2011-11-14 17:02:52 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||||||||
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||||||||
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Description
Albert Flügel
2011-11-14 14:55:06 UTC
How does it fail? Please attach the following logs, along with a description of the actual failure: /tmp/anaconda.log /tmp/storage.log /tmp/program.log /tmp/syslog Thanks. The error message is: <start> Automatic Partitioning Errors The following errors occurred with your partitioning: you have not created a bootloader stage1 target device This can happen if there is not enough space on your hard drive(s) for the installation Press 'OK' to exit the installer. <end> Needless to say, that there is enough space. As said, after running fdisk and writing a DOS label the installation works. I'll attach the logs soon. Created attachment 533566 [details]
The requested anaconda log
Created attachment 533567 [details]
The requested log from anaconda regarding storage
Created attachment 533568 [details]
The requested log from anaconda
Created attachment 533569 [details]
The requested syslog file
So you chose to create a custom layout? Anaconda now uses GPT disklabels by default on all x86 systems. On BIOS systems, this means you need to have a 1MB BIOS Boot partition on the boot disk. You can choose to use the MSDOS disklabel by passing 'nogpt' on the boot command line. Here is a note in the installation guide: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/s1-diskpartitioning-x86.html#Create_Storage-x86 So with kickstart a biosboot partition is now required. Ok. However, the biosboot options are not documented in the part context (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/Kickstart#part_or_partition), just in the bootloader context. So, well, i should have looked there. I guess, i'll not be the only one to miss that, so i'd like to suggest to add some notes regarding --biosboot to the part section. Re-reading 3.2.2 in the release notes is now clearer, but it was not obvious for me, that i have to specify sth. different than before. I'd appreciate a hint regarding kickstart. At least i do not associate "manual" with kickstart (which is automatic). 2nd i'd suggest a hint regarding virtual systems in this section. The "SeaBIOS" is coming with the kvm/qemu packages and so it is determined, that the biosboot partition is necessary. Thanks a lot ! |