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Bug 651178

Summary:	[LTC 5.7 FEAT] Enhance installer to allow /boot in LVM/multipath
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	IBM Bug Proxy <bugproxy>
Component:	anaconda	Assignee:	Dave Cantrell <dcantrell>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Release Test Team <release-test-team-automation>
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	5.7	CC:	jjarvis, nobody+PNT0273897, sbest
Target Milestone:	beta	Keywords:	FutureFeature, OtherQA
Target Release:	5.7
Hardware:	s390x
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Enhancement
Doc Text:		Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2011-01-13 17:03:43 UTC	Type:	---
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:
Bug Blocks:	580522, 618260, 668576

Description IBM Bug Proxy 2010-11-08 22:21:45 UTC

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

Comment 1 John Jarvis 2010-12-07 13:59:16 UTC

IBM is signed up to test and provide feedback, setting OtherQA.

Comment 5 John Jarvis 2011-01-13 17:03:43 UTC

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