On Mon, 24 Jun 2019 15:22:27 +0200 Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 15:26:21 +0200 > Vendula Poncova <vponcova@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 1:56 PM Dan Horák <dan@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > there is a request for not installing the PReP partition on PPC > > > system that don't really require it in bug 1303219 [1]. I've spend > > > some time working on it and I think I have the solution, see [2] > > > for details. Because the testing requires a bare-metal Power > > > machine I'm now thinking how to allow testing it with the > > > community in the least intrusive way. Right now my plan is to > > > have the anaconda PR merged and use an updates.img for the > > > corresponding blivet change. This way anaconda itself should work > > > as before and only when used with the updates.img it should > > > change the behaviour. What do you think? > > > > > > > > Hello Dan, > > the changes for anaconda seem to be safe and reasonable, so I think > > we could merge them if you want to. > > > > As Jirka suggested, it is also possible to create one updates image > > with anaconda and blivet changes. I can help you with that. > > finally I've managed to test both physical PowewNV hardware and a KVM > guest and the is no problem in the installer. KVM guest installation > works as before. The bare metal PowerNV one prints a error during the > "bootloader installation" phase, but succeeds anyway. The problem is > in grub due > "grub2-install: error: the chosen partition is not a PReP partition." > which will need fixing there by loosening that requirement. I think I have a solution for this problem as well. There is already a request to loosen the check in grub2 [1], but IMHO a more appropriate solution is to skip installing the grub binaries in anaconda and let anaconda write only the grub config. Which could be achieved by introducing of a PowerNVGRUB2 class with an empty install() method. [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1723425 Dan _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
