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Bug 236481
| Summary: | skip 'flash' bootloader partition of PS3 storage. | ||||||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | David Woodhouse <dwmw2> | ||||
| Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Anaconda Maintenance Team <anaconda-maint-list> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | rawhide | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2007-04-17 14:50:28 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Blocks: | 235611 | ||||||
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Created attachment 152651 [details]
patch
Here's a hack which works. Someone who actually understands python could surely
do a lot better.
Oops, I meant to drop the EARLY_SWAP_RAM hunk, but it's not as if you were going to use the patch as-is anyway, so I'll not file an updated patch. Blacklist as we do with iSeries is better fix, commited.
>>> peddev = parted.PedDevice.get("/dev/sdb")
>>> peddev.model
'SCEI Flash-5'
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The PS3 has an unpartitioned SCSI 'disk', usually /dev/sdb, which contains the bootloader and information shared with Game OS. The installer currently reports that it does not contain a valid partition table and offers to initialise it. It would be good to automatically skip it. The device in question appears as 'Direct-Access-RBC' in /proc/scsi/scsi -- the type in /sys/block/sdb/device/type is '14'. That's how the Sony tools check for it when they want to access it. Vendor and Model reported in /proc/scsi/scsi are 'SCEI' and 'Flash-5' resp., if those are a better way to identify it. They appear in /sys/block/$dev/device/{vendor,model}