Bug 996509

Summary: bootloader install fails after installer accepts 70 MiB /boot partition
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Steve Tyler <stephent98>
Component: anacondaAssignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list>
Status: CLOSED WONTFIX QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: anaconda-maint-list, dshea, g.kaviyarasu, jonathan, mkolman, sbueno, stephent98, vanmeeuwen+fedora
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Description Steve Tyler 2013-08-13 10:21:49 UTC 
Created attachment 786103 [details]
anaconda-tb-jdh2cS

Description of problem:
The installer accepts a 70 MiB /boot partition with only a warning. The install fails during bootloader installation with:

03:40:58,722 INFO program: Running... grub2-install --no-floppy /dev/sda
03:41:01,791 INFO program: cp: error writing '/boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2': No space left on device
03:41:01,794 INFO program: cp: failed to extend '/boot/grub2/fonts/unicode.pf2': No space left on device
03:41:01,796 DEBUG program: Return code: 1

NB: In Bug 995892, the reporter was using pre-existing partitions from an F9 install that included a ~70 MiB sda2. This appears to be the cause of the install failure reported in Bug 969684, Comment 47.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
anaconda-19.30.13-1
Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso

How reproducible:
Presumably, always.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pre-partition a VM disc image with a 70 MiB partition (sda2).[1]
   See below for a parted report.
2. Boot the F19 installer DVD.[2]
3. From Manual Partitioning, configure sda2 to be mounted on /boot.
4. Begin a Gnome desktop install.

Actual results:
Installer accepts the storage configuration with only a warning.
Install fails during bootloader installation.
See Bug 995892, Attachment 785947 [details] for a screenshot of the warning.

Expected results:
Installer rejects a 70 MiB /boot partition.

Additional info:
See also:
Bug 969684, Comment 50.
Bug Bug 995892, Comment 18.

$ cat parted-usp-free-sda-2.txt 
Model: ATA QEMU HARDDISK (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 67108864s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start      End        Size       Type      File system  Flags
        63s        2047s      1985s                Free Space
 1      2048s      2099199s   2097152s   primary   ntfs
 2      2099200s   2242559s   143360s    primary   ext4         boot
 3      2242560s   4339711s   2097152s   primary
 4      4339712s   67108863s  62769152s  extended
 5      4341760s   28917759s  24576000s  logical
 6      28919808s  67108863s  38189056s  logical                lvm

[1] Pre-partitioning was done with gparted in an installed F19 system.

[2] Tested with:
$ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f19-test-2.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F19/Fedora-19-x86_64-DVD.iso -vga std -boot menu=on
Comment 1 Steve Tyler 2013-08-13 10:34:38 UTC 
(In reply to Steve Tyler from comment #0)
...
> Actual results:
> Installer accepts the storage configuration with only a warning.
...

The warning appears in the Installation Summary under Installation Destination:
"Warning checking storage configuration"

See Bug 995892, Attachment 785947 [details] for a screenshot of the warning.
Comment 2 Steve Tyler 2013-08-13 15:31:05 UTC 
For the record, a default F9 install allocates ~196 MiB for sda1:

>>> 205599744.0/1024**2
196.0751953125

$ virt-cat f9-test-1.img /etc/fedora-release
Fedora release 9 (Sulphur)

$ virt-filesystems --all --long -a f9-test-1.img
Name                     Type       VFS  Label MBR Size        Parent
/dev/sda1                filesystem ext3 /boot -   205599744   -
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 filesystem ext3 -     -   32010928128 -
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 filesystem swap -     -   2080374784  -
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 lv         -    -     -   32010928128 /dev/VolGroup00
/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol01 lv         -    -     -   2080374784  /dev/VolGroup00
/dev/VolGroup00          vg         -    -     -   34124857344 /dev/sda2
/dev/sda2                pv         -    -     -   34124857344 -
/dev/sda1                partition  -    -     83  205599744   /dev/sda
/dev/sda2                partition  -    -     8e  34151362560 /dev/sda
/dev/sda                 device     -    -     -   34359738368 -

Tested with:
$ qemu-kvm -m 4096 -hda f9-test-1.img -cdrom ~/xfr/fedora/F9/Fedora-9-x86_64-netinst.iso -vga vmware -boot menu=on
Comment 3 Steve Tyler 2013-08-13 19:36:22 UTC 
(In reply to Steve Tyler from comment #1)
... 
> The warning appears in the Installation Summary under Installation
> Destination:
> "Warning checking storage configuration"
> 
> See Bug 995892, Attachment 785947 [details] for a screenshot of the warning.

The warning is also logged in /tmp/anaconda.log.

Snippet from the attached anaconda-tb-jdh2cS:
...
/tmp/anaconda.log:
08:09:39,922 INFO anaconda: /sbin/anaconda 19.30.13-1
...
03:16:52,086 WARN anaconda: Your /boot partition is less than 75 megabytes which is lower than recommended for a normal Fedora install.
...
Comment 4 David Shea 2014-01-02 20:45:22 UTC 
There is a warning provided for a potentially problematic configuration which could nonetheless be valid for certain configurations, and when ignored the configuration caused a problem. That seems pretty ok to me.