Bug 22429

Summary:	DAC960 driver doesn't recognise partition numbers >7 (installer)
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	Daniel Stone <tamriel86>
Component:	installer	Assignee:	Michael Fulbright <msf>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version:	6.2
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Description Daniel Stone 2000-12-18 00:17:35 UTC

We are trying to run RedHat 6.2 on some servers with a Mylex DAC960 RAID
controller (RedHat 7 has been deemed too experimental), and in booting from
the bootdisks, we noted that the RAID driver wouldn't recognise partition
numbers greater than 7, hence crippling us to 4 partitions in the install,
and asking operators to fdisk, edit fstabs, mount, remount, create
temporarymounting points, etc, is a procedural nightmare.
This bug isn't actually as much with the bootdisks/installer as it is with
the kernel - the bug has definitely been fixed in 2.2.17.
Could you please issue new bootdisks to rectify this problem? Thankyou very
much.
Regards,
Daniel Stone

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2000-12-18 01:04:35 UTC

My bad, this has been reported before.
This sucks just a bit, though.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 18231 ***