CentOS 7 Installer Bug?

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The other admin I work with seems to have found a bug in the installer. The setup is: two internal SSD drives. Once the GUI gets to “select drive to install on”, he goes to , creates a RAID 1, and partitions it, regular MBR (they’re small). 1G for /boot as the first partition, 2G for swap as the second partition, and the rest for / as partition 3. fdisk shows the partition types correctly.

Back to the GUI, select the MD drive… and /boot’s fine, / looks ok… but the one for swap shows with 0 bytes.

Anyone else seen this behavior?

mark

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  • no, not me.

    but I did just (week or so ago) build a system on CentOS-7 using two HDs as RAID-1. I used Anaconda to do the partitioining, did NOT
    partition the drives beforehand like you did.

    creating RAID in Anaconda is not especially intuitive, but it can be done.

    here’s the general recipe I followed:

    http://www.ictdude.com/howto/install-CentOS-7-software-raid-lvm/

    you can also do manual partitioning if you don’t want LVM, just define your own partitions and specify whatever non-LVM filesystem you prefer.

    it’s not, as I said, exactly intuitive, but if you play around with it for a while you’ll be able to figure it out. it might be easiest to create a VM and try it there until you get it the way you like.

    Fred

  • this might be down to when anaconda does its disk scan, and when the parts were created by hand. Ideally, just use anaconda to do the same thing and you should be fine.