Description of problem: I tried to install F12 beta onto a disk, that does NOT have a partition table. It rather has only LVM2 on it: file -s -k /dev/sdb /dev/sdb: LVM2 (Linux Logical Volume Manager) , UUID: ... While the F12-beta-KDE-Live-CD does not have any problems with this particular disk - it does recognize the logical volumes on it -, the installer refuses to accept this disk as installation target. It offers only two options to me: 1. Initialize the disk (a vague term, but most probably not what I want) 2. Ignore the disk (not either, what I want). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): Fedora 12 Beta on x86-64 How reproducible: Always. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Boot the installation DVD 2. Click through all the questions... 3. ... up to the point, when it comes to the gparted section. Actual results: In gparted /dev/sdb does NOT show up, when I have chosen "ignore...". Not a surprise, but not what I want. Expected results: I would have wanted the installer to accept this disk without writing any partition table to it, and to recognize the logical volumes that were already present on this disk. Actually, I do not want gparted to write anything to this disk. Except for creating /etc/fstab, maybe, i.e. defining the mount points. But not anything to any first sector of any disk. Additional info:
P.S: I know, that grub must be installed somewhere else. But that's not a problem to me.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 489991 ***