Bug 495075 - unable to partition disk in EFI installation
Summary: unable to partition disk in EFI installation
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 11
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-04-09 16:20 UTC by Roger Mach
Modified: 2009-06-25 17:59 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2009-06-25 17:59:04 UTC
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2009-04-09 16:20 UTC, Roger Mach
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2009-04-09 16:21 UTC, Roger Mach
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2009-04-09 16:21 UTC, Roger Mach
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anaconda log (64.29 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-09 16:22 UTC, Roger Mach
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program log (1.50 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-09 16:22 UTC, Roger Mach
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storage log (157.18 KB, text/plain)
2009-04-09 16:23 UTC, Roger Mach
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Description Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:20:38 UTC
Created attachment 338938 [details]
Screen shot

Description of problem:
Installing to a disk with a GPT using EFI mode, anaconda will not automatically partition the disk, and complains "You have not created a boot partition".  This continues to occur even after I manually partition and create /boot and /boot/efi partitions.

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


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. boot from boot.iso CD image
2. navigate through install screens until partitioning step
3. try "replace existing linux system", "use entire drive", and "create custom layout" - same error with all three options.
  
Actual results:
Disk is not partitioned, install fails to complete.

Expected results:
Disk is partitioned and installation continues.

Additional info:
Attached screenshots and logs

Comment 1 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:21:12 UTC
Created attachment 338939 [details]
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Comment 2 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:21:40 UTC
Created attachment 338941 [details]
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Comment 3 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:22:11 UTC
Created attachment 338942 [details]
anaconda log

Comment 4 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:22:39 UTC
Created attachment 338943 [details]
program log

Comment 5 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:23:01 UTC
Created attachment 338944 [details]
storage log

Comment 6 Roger Mach 2009-04-09 16:49:35 UTC
I have also confirmed that this problem occurs when using a completely blank disk (zeroed with dd) instead of a disk that already had a GPT written.  There was an additional dialog confirming that the disk needed to be initialized, then everything else was the same.  After the partitioning failed, I confirmed that the disk now had a GPT but no partitions were defined.

Comment 7 Chris Lumens 2009-04-09 20:45:51 UTC
This should be fixed in the next build of anaconda.  Thanks for the bug report.

Comment 8 Bug Zapper 2009-06-09 13:33:10 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 11 development cycle.
Changing version to '11'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping


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