Bug 149703

Summary:	livecd installer won't ignore partitions w/o mount point
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	Kevin Haddock <kevinhaddock>
Component:	LiveCD/DVD/USB	Assignee:	Gentoo Release Team <releng>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	kevinhaddock
Priority:	High
Version:	2006.1
Hardware:	x86
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Kevin Haddock 2006-10-01 03:37:57 UTC

Any partitions not recognized by installer (e.g. lvm2, or unallocated) will cause the install to fail at line 409 of x86ArchitectureTemplate.py (and other locations if that test is commented out) even if they are not assigned a mount point.  AFAIK, they *should* be ignored.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-01 03:46:35 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 146600 ***

Comment 2 Kevin Haddock 2006-10-01 11:15:23 UTC

see my comments on 146600.  Apparently, according to that bug's reporter, this is not a duplicate because his complaint was about the displaying of the cause of the bug to the screen rather than the objectionable behavior, which was my issue.

Comment 3 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-10-01 11:42:55 UTC

This behavior is intentional. It keeps people who ignored the warning that the GTK frontend gives them from completely trashing their drives.