what is suppose to work?

[Gene Czarcinski]

On 12/09/2012 11:48 AM, Gene Czarcinski wrote:
> I have been trying different things with respect to installing 
> F18-beta x86_64 using both the DVD and the livcd-desktop images. One 
> problem I am having is trying to figure out what is suppose to work 
> and what is not.  This primarily concerns storage configuration but 
> there is more (see below).  I am doing this testing on both a real 
> hardware system and using qemu/kvm virtual systems.
>
> More recently (today), I created an F18-beta livecd based on what is 
> in updates-testing, etc.
>
> 1.  So far, letting things default and let anaconda do all of the 
> configuration works.
>
> 2.  Reusing predefined regular partitions for /boot and swap work.
>
> 3.  Using my newly created F18-beta-livecd, I attempted to install 
> into a predefined LV .. this worked BUT /boot/grub2/grub.cfg did not 
> exist and grub2 was not installed into /dev/vda ... manually fixed it 
> from rescue.  This appears to be a step back since the regular livecd 
> worked with respect to grub2.
>
> 4. I have had zero success with the F18-beta DVD in using predefined 
> btrfs subvolumes.  Yes, it does display them but when I press "apply", 
> the mount point value of "/" is cleared and nothing else happens.
>
> 5.  With my newly created F18-beta-livecd, I had exactly the same 
> experience as above.  However, this time I deleted the two btrfs 
> subvolumes I had defined and the btrfs partition.  I then reallocated 
> a newbtrfs and that worked.  BUT, again, grub2 was not installed and 
> there was no grub.cfg
>
> 6.  One general thing I find missing is to control where (on what 
> device) a partition is allocated.  This is a problem!  Although  I was 
> able to allocate the btrfs, My intent was that it be on one volume but 
> in someones infinite wisdom it was on two.  Is there any effort in 
> this area?
>
> Have such tests been conducted successfully by F18 QC?
>
> This is getting a bit frustrating!
>
> I would say that I could consider using fedup instead but doing 
> upgrades has their own set of problems and not installing new packages 
> that would be in a fresh install.  My next step is to see if I can use 
> kickstart to configure things "my way."
>
One or two other things trouble me.  If you have a system with multiple 
predefined btrfs and LVM pools, how do you specify which pool to use for 
new allocations ... and of course for predefined LVs or subvolumes in 
the case of btrfs.  In fact, I do not understand how to specify that 
another subvolume is to be added to a btrfs pool.

Gene