Bug 18265

Summary:	more than 16 partitions fails install
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Mark B. Allan <mallan>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	7.0	CC:	dr
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Description Mark B. Allan 2000-10-03 21:58:05 UTC

The RedHat 7.0 installer will fail to do a valid install if a hard drive w/
more than 16 partitions is used. I have a large (45GB) drive which is set
up for 3 Win installs and 4 Linux installs - I tried to install RH7 with
the following partitions:
hda6  /boot
hda18 / 

 LILO fails to install because there are no hda nodes greater than 16. Hard
drive will not boot, and boot floppy doesn't work. I eventually got the
install to work by manually creating /dev nodes for hda17-22 during the
install. 

 The Mandrake (7.0 and 7.1) installer had no problems with this situation.

Comment 1 Michael Fulbright 2000-10-04 22:18:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 12099 ***