Description of problem: Today I installed Mageia 2 beta 1 on my netbook. This netbook had an existing install of a different distribution on an encrypted partition. I *think* I selected the advanced / expert (I know, I know!) option and it asked me for the password for the encrypted drive, which I entered. Then selecting to add that partition to the lvm group caused the partitioner to get lost (I think there might be other bug reports open on that already). Anyways, I then manually selected to remove this partition. It then said it had to reboot the computer in order to pick up the changes to the partition table. This is not very userfriendly to do this at this point as my previous choices with regards to language, keyboard, accepting the license, etc. were now all lost and had to be entered again upon rebooting. Is there any way that this reboot can be avoided?
My current understanding, is that when a partition is deleted, causing existing partitions to "be renumbered", a reboot is required in order to get the kernel and things like udev to re-read the partition table, and re-create the appropriate /dev/sd entries. I don't think it can be safely avoided without a lot of work get all affected software to also reload their partition lists.
CC: (none) => davidwhodgins
Assignee: bugsquad => thierry.vignaudSource RPM: (none) => drakx-installer-stage2
CC: (none) => djmarian4uSummary: At partioning step the installer wants to restart, losing previous language and keyboard selections => at partioning step the installer wants to restart, losing previous language and keyboard selections
Hi, This bug was filed against cauldron, but we do not have cauldron at the moment. Please report whether this bug is still valid for Mageia 2. Thanks :) Cheers, marja
Keywords: (none) => NEEDINFO
Close this as old because there is no respons in half a year. When someone wants to reopen it please provide details as the version of mageia Roelof
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDCC: (none) => r.wobbenResolution: (none) => OLD