rawhide 20090326 install feedback

[Bob Gustafson]

You probably know about
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=489148

It does sound like Anaconda has regressed though. In FC9 I was able to
update an existing RAID+LVM successfully. FC10 can do the same thing, as
long as it is not motherboard-RAID.

On Thu, 2009-03-26 at 23:35 +0100, matp75 wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I just tried the following installations with rawhide 20090326 (with
> boot.iso)
> 
> I've got two disks.
> I would like to create a raid + LVM setup.
> 
> I've been suffering with all the anaconda bugs and it's getting better
> as this is the first time I could finish the install process (until
> reboot see bellow!) I could even do it without removing my usb card reader.
> 
> I still see many problems :
> 
> - The system doesn't boot after install (I removed the rhgb quiet from
> grub and it just stop until I have to ctrl-alt-suppr without any clear
> error message...)
> 
> By the way, the install process was stuck for 5 minutes in the final
> screen before package installation.
> A top on another console show anaconda taking all the cpu.
> After these 5 minutes, a popup saying please wait appear...
> 
> 
> I retried the installation and :
> - anaconda doesn't keep the md and lvm setup (raid is completely gone,
> setup shown is weird.)  on a console cat /proc/mdstat is empty. log
> seems to show md starting and stopping (my guess is that everything
> starts ok, the install process mount the partition and unmount +
> unfortunately stop the raid ...)
> 
> I did a simple partitioning : /boot + / + swap on only one disk
> this time, installation complete and I could boot.
> 
> Is the problem with installation with LVM + raid known ?
> does it work for somebody ?
> should I open more bugs ???
> 
> Mat
>