[SoaS] soas20.iso and zyx-liveinstaller - soas03 update

[Douglas McClendon]

Thomas C Gilliard wrote:
> Doug;
> 
> 1.)Booted from CD soas03 with native zyx-liveinstaller (14-1?) used 4Gb 
> USB in hp Pavillion Laptop with Turion64 (came with vista premium) hard 
> disk removed.
> 
> 4Gb USB erased and then formatted "unformatted"   with on zyx 
> partitioner, did not select anything but / as sda1. It wrote and said 
> successful completion. But on reboot with USB::: "Missing operating system'
> 
> (on looking at USB for 2nd try with zyx partitioner: it looked unchanged 
> from before I erased it. (One fat16 partition.) Is this how it should 
> have looked?)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=530787

I went ahead and created a bug for that at bugzilla.redhat.com, under 
fedora and zyx-liveinstaller.  First bugzilla bug for zli :)  For 
others, note that this is the preferred way for me to track these bugs. 
  But if you file them elsewhere, just make sure to put me on the CC. 
In general it is always helpful if you have a reproducable case, to try 
to send me the file /var/log/zyx-liveinstaller.log from the system after 
the install, before(or after) trying to reboot.  Pastebin or mail or 
copy to another usbstick in order to mail from another system/os.

I thought I had fixed and tested one problem that was caused by choosing 
no swap partition, but maybe there is another.  In any event, it really 
really shouldn't matter to not format a partition as they all get 
formatted during the install process.  There could be a problem if you 
have another partition mounted and that prevents the kernel from using a 
recently modified partition table.  I need to write a few lines of code 
to detect that situation and alert the user.

> 
> 2.Next tried:
> partitioned USB:
> 
> 100 fat16 /boot
> 3000 ext3 /
> balance linux swap
> selected all three in zyx
> 
> It worked fine.
> 
> 3.) Also used same 4GB USB to boot EeePC900 wirelessly. Worked fine
> 
> So does not seem possible to use "unformatted" for type to do install on 
> 1 partition, Unless I did something wrong.

Good to see 2/3 success.  I can't think of much wrong you could have 
done, but I added you to the CC list of the bug and may ask for more 
feedback there later.

Thanks for the testing,

-dmc