Install on an entire disk without partitioning

[Angus Clarke]

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 <eduardo at bragatto.com> wrote:

> 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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