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 <[email protected]> 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list
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