Hi all, I'm working on fixing the nodmraid option in anaconda (#499733), which got disabled in the F-11 rewrite. This option can be used by people with stale BIOS RAID metadata to make anaconda (and mkinitrd/dracut and rc.sysinit) ignore that metadata, allowing them to install (and run) without problems. With Fedora-12 however we will be using mdraid for Intel BIOS RAID, so the nodmraid option name is no longer valid, I see 3 ways to solve this: 1) Just interpret nodmraid as nobiosraid and be done with it 2) Add a nobiosraid option, and make nodmraid the equivalent of nobiosraid code wise 3) Add a nobiosraid option which ignores all biosraid, and keep nodmraid and interpret it exactly as what it says, iow it will no longer work to ignore for Intel BIOS raid As more BIOS RAID types may be moving to mdraid I think that option 3 is a bad idea, as people who are now using nodmraid will all of a sudden have anaconda no longer finding their disks / have F-# after an update through yum no longer find their disks. Starting with a large group of people with (stale) Intel BIOS RAID metadata. So this leaves options 1 and 2 IMHO, where I vote for 2, then we can start documenting 2 from now on and in due time remove the nodmraid option. Regards, Hans _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
