Bug 442110 – partition writing is before bootloader config

Bug 442110 - partition writing is before bootloader config

Summary:	partition writing is before bootloader config

Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	anaconda (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	All Linux

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Reported:	2008-04-11 15:20 EDT by Bill Nottingham
Modified:	2014-03-16 23:13 EDT (History)
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Last Closed:	2008-06-18 13:17:28 EDT
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-04-11 15:20:42 EDT

Description of problem:

Not sure why it needs to be, that doesn't take that much memory.

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F9 PR

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 05:19:44 EDT

Changing version to '9' as part of upcoming Fedora 9 GA.
More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 2 Chris Lumens 2008-06-18 13:17:28 EDT

It doesn't really look like we can move the bootloader steps before the
partition writing steps.  The bootloader config sets are full of code like this:

    bootDev = anaconda.id.fsset.getEntryByMountPoint("/")
    if not bootDev:
        bootDev = anaconda.id.fsset.getEntryByMountPoint("/boot")
    part = partedUtils.get_partition_by_name(anaconda.id.diskset.disks,
                                              bootDev.device.getDevice())

Which is going to want partitions written to the disk so we'll be able to detect
them and know which choices to offer.  Moving these steps earlier would be nice
because we'd be able to get rid of the inability to go back, but I don't think
it's possible with the current code structure.

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