Bug 442110 - partition writing is before bootloader config
Summary: partition writing is before bootloader config
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Status: CLOSED CANTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 9
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-04-11 19:20 UTC by Bill Nottingham
Modified: 2014-03-17 03:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-06-18 17:17:28 UTC
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Description Bill Nottingham 2008-04-11 19:20:42 UTC
Description of problem:

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

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

F9 PR

Comment 1 Bug Zapper 2008-05-14 09:19:44 UTC
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 17:17:28 UTC
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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