Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 58717
installation requires /boot and / partitions
Last modified: 2005-10-31 17:00:50 EST
Description of Problem: installation on Alpha now seems to require both a /boot and a / (root) partition. installation to a single / (root) partition is no longer possible (worked fine under RH 7.1). If the install is told to proceed without a /boot partition, installation will be nearly complete, and then bomb out in anaconda somewhere, leaving the aboot bootstrap uninstalled, as well as no XFree86 configuration file(s). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How Reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. during setup of partitions, manually set only / (root) and swap 2. proceed with install 3. watch it crash at the end Actual Results: Expected Results: it should be possible to install to a single root partition Additional Information: this is not really an aboot problem, but there don't appear to be any legal "Component" choices for: disk druid fdisk installation (general) any of which would be more descriptive.
This technique of creating a small /boot partition for holding the kernel(s) to be booted, is a hold-over from previous releases which used an older (v0.7) of aboot, which had a limitation on how far a kernel could be from the start of the partition. This limitation no longer exists with aboot v0.9a which is part of the alpha-7.2-beta1 installation.
Fixed and will be in next delivery.
I'm closing this case because it was fixed in the Feb 22 delivery. Please let us know if you still see any problems with this issue.