Never mind ... I was having a "senior mement" and needed more coffee ...
I forgot to change from "clearpart --all" to "clearpart --none"
I really need more coffee ... but I am also glad it reall ydoes work.
Gene
On 11/04/2013 11:48 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
On 11/04/2013 10:36 AM, David Lehman wrote:
On Mon, 2013-11-04 at 10:28 -0500, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
In aticipation that we will have to live with efi and gparted disks
"real soon now", I decided to give the gparted a try first. Before
actually commiting to it on real hardware, I though I would do it on a
KVM virtual.
So I define a simple KVM kickstart install with a biosboot, swap, and
btrfs partitions. Booted F19 DVD-ISO and sp[ecified gpt ks=http://
The install went just find and the system booted just fine.
Now, before proceeding to real hardware I want to make sure that I can
re-install another system (except it will be F19 again). So I specify
the swap and btrfs partitions --noformat and a different name for the
root subvol
This did not work! Anaconda would not accept either --onpart=UUID=...
or --onpart=vda2/3 for the partition specification (gpt was
specified on
the cmdline for the kernel). Anaconda claims that 'No preexisting
partition with the name "vda2" was found'.
anaconda.log and storage.log (from /tmp) would be useful, as is almost
always the case when reporting problems related to anaconda.
I will collect all the info and put it into a bugzilla report because
it looks like there is a lack of gparted support in blivet. I just
completed doing a pdb.trace which started in kickstart.partition and
traced into blivet/udev.py/udev.resolve.devspec() and the only device
it saw was /dev/vda ... not the partitions themselves.
If this is true, I guess that folks doing uefi just do not re-install
and save any of the partitions. I wonder if you can add new
partitions to an existing GPARTED device ... I will have to give that
a try.
Gene
OK, so how do you specify a pre-existing gparted partition? Is this a
bug? Or the lack of a "feature"? Or perhaps some special
(undocumented)
parameter that I need to specify?
I know that anaconda has been supporting installation into gparted
partitions for some time because gparted is used for really, really big
disks and I assume that someone might want to reinstall into existing
partitions.
Gene
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