F17: fatal errors on install

[Paul Howarth]

On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:01:15 -0400
Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:

> On 06/04/2012 07:44 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Jun 2012 19:37:07 -0400
> > Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
> >
> >>> Burned another DVD and booting it got some other errors (rpcbind?)
> >>> but it runs the installer at least.
> >>>
> >>> I'm doing custom partitioning and I selected to encrypt the LVM
> >>> physical volume (LUKS) but now it is also asking about encrypting
> >>> the filesystem for logical volume.
> >>>
> >>> Do I need both of these?
> >>>
> >> And another problem.  You cannot edit the Volume Group name
> >> field.  I need several Volume Groups but now I have no way to do
> >> this since there's no way to make them unique.  :-(
> > The install guide might be of help... 
> >
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/17/html-single/Installation_Guide/index.html#encrypt-x86
> >
> > And this is really the sort of question best suited to the users
> > list: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> >
> > not the devel list. ;) 
> >
> > kevin
> >
> >
> 
> Hey Kevin, I've been custom partitioning Fedora installs since the
> beginning of anaconda.
> 
> Look back several years and you'll find still unaddressed
> installation bugs for anaconda/preupgrade.  For example /boot on RAID.

Hmm, I did a fresh F17 install two days ago with /boot on (MD) RAID1
and it worked just fine, with none of the grub issues F16 had with that.

Paul.