From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020509 Description of problem: When I was installing redhat on a live system from the command-line, various screens dealing with filesystem and bootloader setup appear, which don't really apply to this sort of install. I'm not sure if performing these steps screws up the already-installed redhat (I haven't rebooted yet to see), but they can be bypassed in the first place. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: I was installing redhat using this command: /usr/sbin/anaconda \ --rootpath=/usr/src/pipfield/darnay/chroot/i386 \ --text \ --method=nfs:/usr/src/pipfield/darnay/ks/i386 The various install screens about hard drives, which partitioning method I'd like to use, etc, appear. Expected Results: These screens should be bypassed. Additional info: I have created a patch for the anaconda-7.3 srpm which fixes this issue. A number of screens which don't apply are skipped, and no new problems arise for me when using it. I will append as an attachment.
Created attachment 65845 [details] patch to skip filesystem setup on live system chroot installs
I rebooted the system that I was using anaconda with, and before I used the patch, the partition information on the boot disk was completely destroyed. Grub failed with an error 22, "no such partition". I had to boot off of a rescue cd and re-create the partition information. I've increased the severity of this bug to high because of the loss of data that could potentially cause big problems for others who might try this.
This is not at all a supported path for using anaconda as it exists mainly for the purposes of testing the installer. Unfortunately, it is too late in the cycle to make changes of this magnitude so I'm deferring to a future release. FWIW, though, I've never had this problem when running in rootpath mode myself