Description of problem: When trying to install Fedora 7 with the kickstart mechanism, the installer fails with a message saying that the partition selected as the root partition (e.g. sda1) could not be found. If I try a manual installation (no kickstart) on the same machine, anaconda tells me before starting the real installation that the system lacks enough memory for the installation and that it will create a swap partition instantly (which happens before the normal partitioning step). Perhaps this pre-installation swap creation process screws up the later partitioning done by kickstart. This is the relevant part of the kickstart config: bootloader --location=mbr clearpart --all --initlabel part swap --recommended part / --fstype ext3 --size 1 --grow Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 7 Release Steps to Reproduce: 1. Install with kickstart configuration for anaconda on a computer with 256 MB RAM (or less). Actual results: Root partition device node does not exist. Installation aborts with an error message. Expected results: Installer should work with 256 MB RAM without additional swap or respect the kickstart configuration when creating the swap partition.
I believe Jeremy's recent changes to when the partitioning steps get run in the dispatcher should fix this up as all swap will be activated early on now.
Yes, this should be helped with the early partitioning commit that we're doing now