Bug 755593 - Reuse the partition biosboot of a MBR disk with onpart in kickstart
Summary: Reuse the partition biosboot of a MBR disk with onpart in kickstart
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: anaconda
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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high
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Assignee: Anaconda Maintenance Team
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-11-21 14:46 UTC by Derrien
Modified: 2011-11-24 12:31 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-11-24 12:31:13 UTC
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Description Derrien 2011-11-21 14:46:57 UTC 
Description of problem:
How to reuse with onpart in a kickstart file the partition previously created with "part biosboot --fstype=biosboot --size=1" on a MBR disk ?
"part biosboot --onpart=sda1" doesn't work.

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How reproducible:
always

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Actual results:
Error message "You have not created a bootable partition"

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Comment 1 Derrien 2011-11-24 12:31:13 UTC 
From http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F16_bugs

"Must explicitly specify clearpart=none to use an existing disk layout in kickstart "

But you have to replace 'clearpart=none' by 'clearpart --none'
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