Description of problem: I tried manually partitioning a 146GB drive with the latest FC9 beta (ia64). I created boot, root, and swap on /dev/sdb as follows: ┌────────────────────────────┤ Partitioning ├────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Device Start End Size Type Mount Point │ │ /dev/sda ↑ │ │ sda1 1 13 100M vfat ▮ │ │ sda2 13 3838 30000M ext3 ▒ │ │ sda3 3838 4882 8192M swap ▒ │ │ sda4 4882 6870 15590M Foreign ▒ │ │ sda5 6870 8925 16124M Foreign ▒ │ │ /dev/sdb ▒ │ │ sdb1 1 4462 35000M ext3 / ▒ │ │ sdb2 4462 4985 4096M swap ▒ │ │ sdb3 4985 5009 190M vfat /boot/efi ↓ │ │ │ │ ┌─────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌────────┐ ┌──────┐ ┌────┐ ┌──────┐ │ │ │ New │ │ Edit │ │ Delete │ │ RAID │ │ OK │ │ Back │ │ │ └─────┘ └──────┘ └────────┘ └──────┘ └────┘ └──────┘ │ │ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ ... note the size of /boot/efi. Then I tabbed over to "OK" and pressed ENTER: ┌────────────────────────────┤ Partitioning ├────────────────────────────┐ │ │ │ Device ┌────────┤ Error with Partitioning ├─────────┐unt Point │ │ /dev/sda │ │ ↑ │ │ sda1 │ The following critical errors exist with │ ▮ │ │ sda2 │ your requested partitioning scheme. │ ▒ │ │ sda3 │ These errors must be corrected prior to │ ▒ │ │ sda4 │ continuing with your install of Fedora. │ ▒ │ │ sda5 │ │ ▒ │ │ /dev/sdb │ You must create an EFI System Partition │ ▒ │ │ sdb1 │ of type FAT and a size of 50 megabytes. │ ▒ │ │ sdb2 │ │ ▒ │ │ sdb3 │ ┌────┐ │ ot/efi ↓ │ │ │ │ OK │ │ │ │ ┌─────┐ │ └────┘ │ ─────┐ │ │ │ New │ │ │ Back │ │ │ └─────┘ │ │ ─────┘ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────┘ │ │ │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ At Doug Chapman's suggestion, I tried adding a 150MB /boot (ext3) partition, but that also got the same error-message about partitioning configuration errors. If I go back and let anaconda auto-partition /dev/sdb, it works. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): # rpm -q anaconda anaconda-11.4.0.75-1 How reproducible: 100% (always)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 444127 ***
So you partitioned manually then? If so, can you see if it gives you an "efi" option instead of "vfat" for sdb3? If so, select that and hopefully that'll work. In that case I'll need to figure out why it's not automatically selecting it. If not, we need to figure out why it's not in the list.
Hey, Peter; long time no see. :) Yes, I manually partitioned the last install. Not only that, this is a TEXT-MODE install over serial console; sorry I forgot to mention that last time. When I install, I get the following (alphbetized) list of options: efi, ext2, ext3, physical volume (LVM), software RAID, swap, vfat, xfs (the 'Add Partition') screen defaults to "ext3" on serial installs, always. I dunno what the graphical installer does - I haven't tried it. *** USING "efi" as the partition-type for /boot/efi allows me to proceed ***
Hey, Glen. While I'd really prefer for it to automatically be set to "efi" if you select that mountpoint, I'm going to defer this to post-F9 -- auto-partitioning works*, and manually partitioning works if you know to select efi. At this stage, that's good enough that it's better to not mess with the code. (* I don't have an Itanium in front of me, but on i386 autopart correctly sets it to "efi" and the resulting EFI System Partition is boot.)
Peter, Since we plan on shipping F9 final for ia64 a little bit after F9 for the primary arches could we get this into anaconda just after you guys ship the primary F9? That way F9 final for ia64 could pick up the fix. I am expecting our F9 final will be in about a month. We just wrapped up F9-beta just now (which is what Glen was using when he hit this).
Doug, that may be feasible. I'm really not sure just yet, what with the office move right in the middle and whatnot.
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