Install on an entire disk without partitioning

[Jacob Evans]

I used this layout for lvm, you'll need a dedicated boot partition. 
https://gist.github.com/JakeDEvans/908d9a75aa5fc24c9eee24f4912af9aa 

Hope it helps. 
-Jake 


From: "Michael Mayer" <michael at mayer.cx> 
To: "Angus Clarke" <angus.clarke at gmail.com>, "kickstart-list" <kickstart-list at redhat.com> 
Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2017 8:01:15 AM 
Subject: Re: Install on an entire disk without partitioning 



Not sure if this helpful (I have not tested that myself) - wondering if you could specify 

bootloader --location=partition 

to make it work ? 

see https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Installation_Guide/sect-kickstart-syntax.html 

On 21 February 2017 at 12:38 Angus Clarke <angus.clarke at gmail.com> wrote: 

As far as I know, LVM is the only way to use disks without partitioning (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 ... 

Regards 
Angus 

On 20 February 2017 at 19:14, Eduardo Bragatto < [ mailto:eduardo at bragatto.com | eduardo at bragatto.com ] > wrote: 

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Hello, 

First of all, my apologies if this questions has already been answered, but I couldn’t find a clear answer in the documentation or searching the list archives. 

My goal is to install CentOS 6 and 7 on an entire disk, with no partitioning scheme (e.g. in /dev/xvda). 

My first attempt was to use “part …. onpart=xvda”, like this: 

zerombr 
clearpart --drives=xvda --all --initlabel 
part / --fstype ext3 --fsoptions=noatime --onpart=xvda 

The installer actually formats /dev/xvda correctly: 

│ Creating ext3 filesystem on /dev/xvda │ 


However, it fails right after that because it tries to read the first item from an empty list: 

Entering debugger... 
> /usr/lib/anaconda/platform.py(640)bootloaderChoices() 
-> ret["mbr"] = (bl.drivelist[0], N_("Master Boot Record (MBR)")) 
(Pdb) bl.drivelist 
[] 
(Pdb) ret 
{'boot': ('xvda', 'First sector of boot partition')} 


What’s the correct way to avoid partitioning entirely, and have the system installed into a whole device? 


Kind regards 
Eduardo Bragatto 


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