1. Feature Overview: Feature Id: [67986] a. Name of Feature: [LTC 5.7 FEAT] Enhance installer to allow /boot in LVM/multipath b. Feature Description Feature request to enhance the installer so that the /boot partition can be mutipathed/LVM (at least for System z, since zipl, the System z loader, supports it), which currently it is not allowed by the distributor installer code. 2. Feature Details: Sponsor: LTC zSeries BOE Architectures: zSeries - 64 native, Arch Specificity: both Affects Kernel Modules: No Delivery Mechanism: LDP Deliverable Category: other Request Type: Installer - Enhancement from Distributor d. Upstream Acceptance: --- Sponsor Priority P1 f. Severity: ship issue IBM Confidential: No Code Contribution: 3rd party code g. Component Version Target: --- h. Installer - Enhancement from Distributor 3. Business Case This feature will increase the RAS capabilities of Linux on System z to start the system in a multipath environment. 4. Primary contact at Red Hat: John Jarvis, jjarvis 5. Primary contacts at Partner: Project Management Contact: Hans-Georg Markgraf, mgrf.com Technical contact(s): Gonzalo Muelas Serrano, gmuelas.com
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Setting this feature as CLOSED WONTFIX as backporting is not possible as the RHEL-5 and RHEL-6 anaconda store code share nothing in common. This is denied for RHEL 5.x