On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 10:26 -0800, David Rees wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Doug Ledford <dledford@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2008-11-12 at 16:45 +1300, Richard Scobie wrote:
> >> Slightly off topic, but I was wondering if anyone knew how I could do an
> >> install of Fedora 9 WITHOUT it using dm RAID.
> >>
> >> I have done a number of md RAID installs of Fedora 9, but this
> >> particular machine has a Silicon Image controller that the Redhat
> >> installer obviously recognises and automatically proceeds to install
> >> using dmraid and I would prefer to use md.
> >
> > At the boot prompt, pass the nodmraid option. There are a number of
> > options available, you can get the entire list by installing anaconda,
> > then running anaconda --help on a working system. Any options the
> > kernel doesn't know just get passed on to anaconda.
>
> Is nodmraid enough? For some reason on a recent system I installed F10
> Preview on I seemed to have to specify both nodmraid and nompath to
> get multipath from taking over...
>
> It would be a lot easier if you could choose which you wanted during
> install time instead of having to figure out boot parameters.
That's a valid point. Feel free to file an RFE against Anaconda in
Fedora's bugzilla (bugzilla.redhat.com).
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