Re: Install on an entire disk without partitioning
Michael Mayer <[email protected]> Tue, 21 Feb 2017 13:01:15 +0000 (GMT)
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</head><body><p>Not sure if this helpful (I have not tested that myself) - =
wondering if you could specify</p><p>bootloader --location=3Dpartition =
;</p><p>to make it work ? </p><p>see https://access.redhat.com/documen=
tation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickst=
art-syntax.html</p><blockquote type=3D"cite">On 21 February 2017 at 12:38 A=
ngus Clarke <[email protected]> wrote:<br><br><div dir=3D"ltr"=
><div><div>As far as I know, LVM is the only way to use disks without parti=
tioning (and I still use partitions with LVM anyway - old habits die hard!)=
However I doubt a boot partition will work under LVM. I'm a bit out of=
touch with modern disk/boot architectures however ...<br><br></div>Regards=
<br></div>Angus<br></div><div class=3D"ox-2faff21410-gmail_extra"><br><div =
class=3D"ox-2faff21410-gmail_quote">On 20 February 2017 at 19:14, Eduardo B=
ragatto <<a href=3D"mailto:[email protected]" target=3D"_blank">edua=
[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote>Hello,<br> <br> First of al=
l, my apologies if this questions has already been answered, but I couldn&#=
8217;t find a clear answer in the documentation or searching the list archi=
ves.<br> <br> My goal is to install CentOS 6 and 7 on an entire disk, with =
no partitioning scheme (e.g. in /dev/xvda).<br> <br> My first attempt was t=
o use “part …. onpart=3Dxvda”, like this:<br> <br> zeromb=
r<br> clearpart --drives=3Dxvda --all --initlabel<br> part / --fstype ext3 =
--fsoptions=3Dnoatime --onpart=3Dxvda<br> <br> The installer actually forma=
ts /dev/xvda correctly:<br> <br>             =
 =E2=94=82 Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/xvda      &=
#160;       =E2=94=82<br> <br> <br> However, it fails right =
after that because it tries to read the first item from an empty list:<br> =
<br> Entering debugger...<br> > /usr/lib/anaconda/platform.py(<wbr/>640=
)bootloaderChoices()<br> -> ret["mbr"] =3D (bl.drivelist[0], N_=
("Master Boot Record (MBR)"))<br> (Pdb) bl.drivelist<br> []<br> (Pd=
b) ret<br> {'boot': ('xvda', 'First sector of boot part=
ition')}<br> <br> <br> What’s the correct way to avoid partitioni=
ng entirely, and have the system installed into a whole device?<br> <br> <b=
r> Kind regards<br> Eduardo Bragatto<br> <br> <br> ________________________=
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