[Fedora-sparc] SPARC Status

[Bryce]

On 20/09/12 15:00, Lamar Owen wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> I have my own private archive of messages like that to this mailing list, and I can repost if mecessary.
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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
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