A change https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/commit/71dda920a75be5baad7d5b8a93f4f998701b168e which in effect means that no disk that provides an installation source (live images/packages/...) can be used for the installation. This is impacting installations where: - single drive (/dev/sda) installation was started from the iso file via grub (sdaN) - single drive (/dev/sda) installation was started from the lvm via grub (sdaN) - installation was started from the partition on removable media (/dev/sdbN) targeting same media (/dev/sdb) Proposed fix https://github.com/rhinstaller/anaconda/pull/5243 This was working up to F39 and should be reviewed if it's a blocker
Thanks for the report, but please don't create bugs by cloning otherwise entirely-unrelated ones, it's rather confusing, and causes metadata issues (like this one being marked as an accepted blocker). As you wanted it considered as a blocker, I'm marking it as proposed.
Created attachment 1993629 [details] text install
-7 / +1 in https://pagure.io/fedora-qa/blocker-review/issue/1403 , marking rejected.
*** Bug 2242750 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
One of my concerns was that the "protection" is done without notice and can leave a user scratching his head wondering why the installer cannot see the hard drive. That is the effect it had on me. I got the "protection" even though I was not booting from the hard drive. At the very least, a user should be told whenever the installer throws away a drive. Does anaconda really not know the drive on which it resides? If it does not, a simple solution would seem to be not reformatting any partition on a protected drive. One cannot write to a .iso image. That should be sufficient protection. Also, I'm not clear on why the earlier bug, 2242750, was the one that was closed, especially since there seems to be administrative issues with this one. I do not have a big bugzilla footprint. Having half my bug reports closed as a duplicate is unlikely to do me any good.
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