From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 Description of problem: My first installation of fc4 failed (it did boot, but the first-run wizard did not load, so it was severely messed up), because I forgot to create a /boot partition during install. The partition utility should have told me I needed at least three partitions / /boot /swap and not let me continue without them. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use FC4 installer 2. In the partition utility, do not create a /boot partition 3. Continue with install Actual Results: The system boots, but the first-run wizard does not run and all is messed up. Expected Results: At stage 2, the installer should have warned me a /boot partition was necessary. Additional info:
/boot is only required in a subset of cases like using LVM for /. This is caught. If you're doing flat partitions, having no /boot is perfectly acceptable for the majority of hardware currently supported by Fedora Core.