Bug 755593

Summary:	Reuse the partition biosboot of a MBR disk with onpart in kickstart
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Derrien <derrien>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	16	CC:	anaconda-maint-list, jonathan, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Derrien 2011-11-21 14:46:57 UTC

Description of problem:
How to reuse with onpart in a kickstart file the partition previously created with "part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1" on a MBR disk ?
"part biosboot --onpart=sda1" doesn't work.

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How reproducible:
always

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Actual results:
Error message "You have not created a bootable partition"

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Comment 1 Derrien 2011-11-24 12:31:13 UTC

From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

"Must explicitly specify clearpart=none to use an existing disk layout in kickstart "

But you have to replace 'clearpart=none' by 'clearpart --none'