Description of problem: While doing a reinstall of rawhide I wanted to save a little time by reusing the raid definitions I had used previously. They originally showed up as type foreign. I went in to specify that they should be reformatted as ext3 and specified encryption and specified a mount point. At this point things looked OK in that menu. However when I close it the device still showed as being type foreign (rather than ext3) and there was no lock. When I went back to check it with the edit function the mount point information had been removed. The raid away with encrypted swap seemed to work correctly. I expect to be able to work around this easily, and I doubt it will affect many (any?) people trying to use the beta, so there probably isn't a rush to do this. I didn't have any encryption on normal devices, so I don't know if raid is really needed to trigger this. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): anaconda-11.4.0.55-1 on an x86_64 system. How reproducible: I don't know as this is the first reinstall which I tried to do reusing existing encrypted file systems. Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install fedora using encrypted file systems (and possibly raid 1). 2.Redo the install using a custom layout and try to reuse an encrypted partition in the new install. 3. Actual results: Mount point information is lost before I can proceed to the next step of the install. Expected results: That I be able to move on to the next step of the install. Additional info:
Dave is looking at this and depending on how the patch looks, we're going to make the call of whether to put it in or to put off this support until F10
OK. The work around was pretty simple, so it may not be worth risking something that might break things at this point. I just deleted the raid arrays and recreated them. Doing this one at a time made it so I didn't even have to do much picking. The install is proceeding now, and I expect it to work. (I am up to the starting install process. This may take several minutes... prompt.)
As of anaconda-11.4.0.62-1 you can reuse preexisting LUKS partitions, RAID devices, and logical volumes, provided you enter the correct passphrase when prompted (prompting occurs immediately prior to the partitioning screens, after root password screen). Encrypted RAID member devices do not work at this time, but a fix is in the works.