Bug 101308
Summary: | installation can't find valid DASD device | ||
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Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Janet Smith <janet_smith> |
Component: | anaconda | Assignee: | Jeremy Katz <katzj> |
Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Mike McLean <mikem> |
Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
Priority: | medium | ||
Version: | 3.0 | CC: | karsten, msw |
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Target Release: | --- | ||
Hardware: | s390 | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
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Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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Last Closed: | 2003-08-13 19:53:40 UTC | Type: | --- |
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oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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Description
Janet Smith
2003-07-30 19:16:34 UTC
I've figured a way around this problem. If I manually, perform some linux function against the dasd device (dasdfmt, dd or mke2fs) then the anaconda installation will recognize that the device exist and says that it is of an improper format. However this will allow the process to continue, with the anaconda installation performing the dasdfmt & mke2fs properly. By the way, I'm using the text installation (python???). You can close this problem if you want to. Did you pass any DASD= command line arguments in your parm file or rely on dasd autodetection? I tried it both ways. Did you format the minidisk in VM ? If so, with which program and parameters ? Or was this a reused minidisk, maybe in CMS format ? The installer ignores CMS formatted disks to avoid formatting the guests home disk or other writable system disks that happen to be in the DASD range you've provided in the .parm file. If was a newly created CMS formatted mini-disk. I find that if I CMS format them then I don't have to do the dasdfmt & fdisk. But thanks for the resolution. Just one observation, the error message was not very helpful in identifying the problem/issue. Maybe a message a little more meaningful. thanks We're string frozen and the error message is correct (there isn't a suitable device found). I've passed this on to be included in the docuementation, though. |