Bug 723841 - installation on raid device in EFI aborts on format of fat partition
Summary: installation on raid device in EFI aborts on format of fat partition
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 709266
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dosfstools
Version: 6.1
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
unspecified
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jaroslav Škarvada
QA Contact: BaseOS QE - Apps
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-07-21 11:01 UTC by Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski
Modified: 2011-07-21 14:34 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-07-21 14:34:29 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
installer bug raport (378.46 KB, text/xml)
2011-07-21 11:01 UTC, Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 		no flags Details
patch from SLES that supresses mkdosfs message of formating whole device (1017 bytes, patch)
2011-07-21 11:05 UTC, Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-21 11:01:11 UTC 
Created attachment 514182 [details]
installer bug raport

Description of problem:
If one wants to install RHEL in UEFI environment using RAID device as boot partition it is not possible. The problem appears during an attempt to format
FAT partition created to store efi grub and its config.
(Installation log from anaconda attached)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL 6.1 RC3/GA

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. change BIOS setup to EFI
2. create RAID device (as instalation destination)
3. start installation from DVD
4. point md device as installation target
5. format of fat partition fails
  
Actual results:
format of fat partition fails

Expected results:
format of fat partition succeeds and system is installed correctly

Additional info:
Quick investigation revealed, that mkdosfs invoked on md device informs that using whole device (not partition) requires use of -I switch.
Problem can be resolved adding -I when mkdosfs is started, or upgrade mkdosfs to support md devices (as Novell does in SUSE).
Comment 2 Przemyslaw Hawrylewicz-Czarnowski 2011-07-21 11:05:14 UTC 
Created attachment 514185 [details]
patch from SLES that supresses mkdosfs message of formating whole device
Comment 3 Chris Lumens 2011-07-21 14:01:14 UTC 
Reassigning to dosfsutils on the basis of the Additional info comment.  Thanks for the data.
Comment 4 Jaroslav Škarvada 2011-07-21 14:34:29 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 709266 ***
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