On 20/09/12 15:00, Lamar Owen wrote: > > Hmm, I seem to remember some issues around the partitioning under F12 on SPARC. It was recommended, best I can recall, that you let the installer autopartition; anything else is very unstable and will likely crash anaconda. > > Once installed you can set up partitions, move LVM around (I did that with our E6500, taking the defaults at first onto a single drive, and then moving the physical volume (with the LVM tools) to a software RAID5. Worked fine.) set up RAID, or whatever else. But it was important, IIRC, to take the defaults during installation. There is a set of posts in the archives about the installer caveats, and I think it's on the F12Beta page on Fedoraproject.org, or at least it used to be. > > I have my own private archive of messages like that to this mailing list, and I can repost if mecessary. > Mmm auto partitioning works but replace doesn't because for whatever reason it ignores anaconda/platform.py where _disklabel_types = ['sun'] is set for the sparc platform and decides the disk should be using a msdos label instead, so the install goes along fine since linux is able to handle both label types, at the end after you reboot, OBP looks for a sun label disk and finds msdos garbage which it promptly chokes on. I think the logic is buried in storage/device.py and storage/partitioning.py. Anaconda - a cruel and unusual punishment to make anyone do. Phil =--= _______________________________________________ sparc mailing list sparc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/sparc
